Lucrative security job draws officer to Iraq (mercenary)

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http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050226/NEWS/50226001/1033/NEWS01


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"I want to help people. I would love to see a Middle East in which everyone is free," said Bob Nishiyama, commander of the multiagency Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force.

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MVM is a global security company formed 24 years ago by former Secret Service agents. It has more than 4,300 employees and security contracts with government agencies around the world, including with the U.S. State Department. The company reported $165 million in revenue in 2003.

It's one of many private companies benefitting from government contracts in Iraq as the United States leans on the private sector to provide security services that include guarding convoys, training Iraqi police and protecting embassies. Their experienced soldiers can earn upward of $500 a day, compared with $1,200 a month earned by entry-level Army soldiers.

As much as a third of the U.S. war budget for Iraq -- a projected $30 billion in 2004 -- was spent on private military companies, according to a report by Reuters, the British news agency.

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1. Mortal Combat the reality game

a generation or mutation of humans who think war is a game like at an arcade .It is sad and no one complains because it would cut into thier t.v. time.