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[Garritos 0]

I think a private army pack would be great for OFP.  It would open up a whole new realm of mission making.  We could create realistic senarios in every hotspot in the world.  Blackwater for example is made up mostly of ex-special forces soldiers and uses the Defender 500 Helicopter.  anyone wanna bring these guys into OFP??  I will offer to make the demo mission  here are some pics of Blackwater USA in action in Iraq:

[Ironsight 1]

Hehe I've been thinking about adding a private army to OFP the whole spring break

But I don't have the O2 knowledge

It would be cool since you can use them actually all over the world, wich gives a lot of new mission possibility's

[Major Fubar 0]

Absolutely! I would love to see some mercenary/soldier-of-fortune type addons for OFP. As you said, it would open up a LOT of new mission possibilities.

[Tamme 0]

A good idea.

Why does Blackwater sound so damn familiar? Fallout had some sort of a firm named Blackwater. But I've heard the name somewhere else too I'm sure.. In another game perhaps..

EDIT: Blackwater training center! That's it! SWAT trains there right?

[Garritos 0]

Quote[/b] ]Blackwater training center! That's it! SWAT trains there right?

Yes, they have a 6000 acre training facility in Moyok, NC

not only does SWAT train there but various special forces units from the US armed forces also trains there.  Visit the website here

[-=BT=- Matty R 0]

lol its not

Quote[/b] ]Yes, they have a 6000 mile

its 6000 acres of private land. anyways sounds like a good idea!

[Garritos 0]

Bah, yeah I caught that and fixed it before your message... that would be one huge complex!!

[GoOB 0]

Would be great! And you could probably use the BAS-SDK as a good base for these units. It would indeed open up new mission possibilities, but if it comes to finished units it might be best to have the units come from an unnamed company, as there are alot of really interesting African mercenary companies.

[MSpencer 0]

Blackwater would be a great project.

So would Rumsfeld in combat boots (Look for pics). I think it looks... very bureaucratic.

This would be awesome to be able to have US "mercenary" missions.

[DracoPaladore 0]

Didn't the lost brothers mod have some mercenary's?

[Major Fubar 0]

On a related note:

Hired guns: Australian mercenaries in Iraq

(Source: Herald Sun newspaper, 17-May-2004)

Quote[/b] ]Hired guns: Australian mercenaries in Iraq

Mark Dunn

17may04

AUSTRALIAN mercenaries are risking their lives to make a fortune in Iraq. About 100 Australians – including about 40 former SAS troops – are working as hired guns in private security forces.

SAS officers headhunted

The former SAS elite earn as much as $9000 a week to guard corporate managers and infrastructure projects in the war-torn nation.

Six ex-SAS, who were part of last year's invasion force, quit Australia's frontline troops to sign up.

Other soldiers of fortune include ex-Australian federal and state police from counter-terrorist and specialist units.

Each day they face attack or ambush, including bombs hidden in dead dogs beside the roads, an ex-SAS officer told the Herald Sun from Baghdad.

"It really is a scene out of a Mad Max movie – incredibly lawless with no one fully controlling the highways," said Gordon Conroy, a former major and head of athletes' security at the Sydney 2000 Games.

Mr Conroy, who commanded the SAS's counter-terrorist squadron until 1997, is now co-director of security firm Unity Resources Group.

"We have been caught by IED (improvised explosive device) ambushes, rocketed and mortared in our accommodation, caught in protests that have turned violent and turned on our men," he said.

"We've been involved in small arms and RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) attacks, driven through checkpoints minutes before suicide car bombers have gone off.

"We've had to evacuate clients out of various hot spots with little or no military support, had to deal with false police check points."

An unknown number of international privateers among the estimated 10,000 security contractors have been killed.

Some, like the four US security contractors slain in Fallujah last month, have suffered a gruesome and very public death.

"I can't say how many have been killed since the end of the war but the majority of PSD (protective security details) working out here all know of people who have been injured or killed," Mr Conroy said.

"It's an intense environment and most security operators in Iraq will witness and be involved in incidents that would take their counterparts working elsewhere in the world a lifetime to experience.

"The biggest threat to people working and operating in Iraq is being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Two days ago we drove a client from the Green Zone to Baghdad international airport and came across a soft-skinned land cruiser with a single expatriate inside who had been attacked in a drive-by shooting.

"The military were arriving as we drove past his bullet-ridden vehicle which left him slumped over the steering wheel – more than likely dead."

Mr Conroy said Baghdad security circles knew of the beheading of US civilian Nick Berg days before it was posted on an extremist website.

"There was the decapitated expatriate on the bridge," Mr Conroy said.

"He was dressed in orange overalls which are worn by prisoners and this may suggest it was done in retaliation for the prison abuse."

Mr Conroy said Iraq was still a war zone, a year after Saddam Hussein was toppled.

"There have and continue to be a number of tricky situations faced by our men on a daily basis.

"Travel along the roads and highways throughout Iraq is risky business – every day coalition convoys are hit.

"Contractors are seen as soft targets and are more frequently hit by IEDs which are secreted along the roadways in amco rail barriers, cemented into guttering or hidden in roadside debris such as dead dogs, soft-drink cans, rubbish bags."

Mr Conroy said the bombs were usually detonated by remote control when a convoy reached the "killing ground".

Attacks had become more sophisticated over the 11 months he has been in Iraq as experienced terrorists joined the conflict.

"The foreign terrorists have had a lot of practice, been able to refine their modus operandi and time is definitely on their side – not ours."

[edit]There were much better pics in today's paper than the two above, I'll see if I can scan them in[/edit]

[miles teg 1]

Didn't the lost brothers mod have some mercenary's?

Sorta... as I side project I was messing around with an Executive Outcomes MD-500 Defender based on Adammo's Little Bird.

Here's a pic of it:

But I haven't gotten much farther then that. However I wouldn't mind modifying Adammo's MH-6 Little Bird into a Blackwater USA MD-500 (with Adammo's permission) in order to carry Blackwater soldiers into action. That is unless BAS wants to volunteer their Little Bird models to the cause.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[CanadianTerror 0]

Lost Brothers had mercenaries in the first H&K pack.

[Major Fubar 0]

Here's some scanned pics, that go with the article above (not great quality, the paper was pretty mangled before I scanned them):