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The food is very good at the Black Bear Inn.

As you've said several times........Do you mean the food from the vending machines or what you cook yourself, in the communal kitchens, stocked with a shared fridge and microwave? :rolleyes:

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Apparently youve ever been there then. I guess to be totally accurate its not actually in the inn.

One thing is for certain, you haven't.......

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Here is a little picture of the cafeteria you say doesnt exist.

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/moyock-nc/dining-hall

One, its not a cafeteria, but a dinning hall with kitchen, to allow a battalion sized military formation (using the ranges) to feed its personal, with meals prepared by its own logistic staff........second, food prepared in large quantity, by any military, and served in steam trays is not good, let alone very good........third, the dinning hall, is not located in the Black Bear Inn as you stated, several times in various threads.......

If you want "very good food" from anywhere within the region, you have to cross the State line into Tidewater........

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One, its not a cafeteria, but a dinning hall with kitchen, to allow a battalion sized military formation (using the ranges) to feed its personal, with meals prepared by its own logistic staff........second, food prepared in large quantity, by any military, and served in steam trays is not good, let alone very good........third, the dinning hall, is not located in the Black Bear Inn as you stated, several times in various threads.......

If you want "very good food" from anywhere within the region, you have to cross the State line into Tidewater........

Um, you dont need to describe it to me. Ive taken many a good meal there. The bunks at the Black Bear were a bit tight though.

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Um, you dont need to describe it to me. Ive taken many a good meal there. The bunks at the Black Bear were a bit tight though.

Before or after your million rounds a month training? Odd that you pretend to have received firearms training from ex special forces, but can't identify a shotgun (a shotgun co-designed by Blackwater to boot), have claimed to have burnt your hand on the barrel of an M4 (despite such carbines having handguards and heat shields) and don't know the difference between a "clip" and a "magazine"............Likewise your piss poor retelling of both the acronym and actual procedure for safely clearing the M-16/M-4 platform, something drilled into the heads of every 17 year old that has went through a Western military basic course.......

Based on your own posts, I highly doubt you've ever handled a real firearm (outside of the ones that come with your video games), let alone were trained to handle and shoot one by former SEALS and Delta Force at Blackwater........

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Before or after your million rounds a month training? Odd that you pretend to have received firearms training from ex special forces, but can't identify a shotgun (a shotgun co-designed by Blackwater to boot), have claimed to have burnt your hand on the barrel of an M4 (despite such carbines having handguards and heat shields) and don't know the difference between a "clip" and a "magazine"............Likewise your piss poor retelling of both the acronym and actual procedure for safely clearing the M-16/M-4 platform, something drilled into the heads of every 17 year old that has went through a Western military basic course.......

Based on your own posts, I highly doubt you've ever handled a real firearm (outside of the ones that come with your video games), let alone were trained to handle and shoot one by former SEALS and Delta Force at Blackwater........

The acronym SPORTS do you mean. One thing that was quite interesting was I had just come from a St. Johns Ambulance training session and some of the ways the battlefield first aid differed were noteworthy.

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To answer Derek yes of course. No problem with that. To answer Bush directly, no problem with Erik Prince-very qualified in training body guards and evasive techniques to protect vips under attack.

I have zero problem with you 2 arguing we need specialized training the military doesn;t have say for protecting vip's. Got it. Totally agree.

I have zero problem with that.

My hate on is not for Prince or for the concept of specialized training for specific specialized needs falling outside conventional military training.

My anger is for other things-behaviour, values, political decisions made by Blackwater which contradicts the very training of Erik Prince.

if I thought for a moment Blackwater was honouring the disciplined head space of a Seal or SAS operative you would not hear a peep from me.

I know good men who came back from Iraq. They have no reason to lie about what they saw Blackwater mercenaries do.

You know my bias. I don't like them. Never call them a Seal or SAS operative. Some of them might have been Seals but they lost their values somewhere along the line in that organization corrupted by fat contracts and too much power on the ground with no accountability.

May I say I know some elite trained officers. It is an insult to them to say Blackwater teaches anyone to be like them.

Let me leave it at that. I don't really disagree with you 2. My venom is directed specifically at one organization not the concept of outsourcing when its done right.

I don't like private wars where the mercenaries outnumber the soldiers, get paid a fortune and place the soldiers in harm's way to do their dirty work.

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Don't make it sound like canadian soldiers are angels and their morals will be hurt by training with these people. Thru out our history Canadian soldiers were mean, lean and brutal killing machines.

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Toronto, like a roach motel in the middle of a pretty living room.

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....I don't like private wars where the mercenaries outnumber the soldiers, get paid a fortune and place the soldiers in harm's way to do their dirty work.

Meh...there are plenty of well paid private contractors behind every soldier, for direct and indirect support. Blackwater is just a higher visibility drop in the bucket. Soldiers don't work for free either.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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One, its not a cafeteria, but a dinning hall with kitchen ...

:lol:

MLW ... where childish squabbling passes for adult discussion. :/

But speaking of Blackwater ...

Conviction of four former Blackwater security guards ... lengthy prison terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced former guard Nicholas Slatten to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for their roles in the shootings that killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others in Baghdad's Nisoor Square.

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That is the unfortunate part of our recent "excursions" into the Middle East. The USA and Canada made use of a mercenary army which was not figured into reports during the conflict. We would supply money to certain businesses and projects who in turn would hire these mercenaries for their needs. Meanwhile we would write the monies off as "development and reconstruction" costs.

This way it was easier to hide the actual costs of our recent wars.

There are currently over 100,000 "security contractors" in Afghanistan to-day.

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Note - For those expecting a response from Big Guy: I generally do not read or respond to posts longer then 300 words nor to parsed comments.

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And jacee posting something that is 8 yrs old.

Toronto, like a roach motel in the middle of a pretty living room.

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