Animal House in Afghanistan

where can I sign up????

I gotta say this sounds real American.

If they were US soldiers guarding an embassy in a war zone, they'd be turning over at least annually, too.

Marines usually guard embassies. If the Marines I know who are embassy guards were in Kabul this would never have happened.

What happened to the good old days of Blackwater contractors killing civilians . . .

Marines DO guard embassies, but they are only responsible for INTERNAL security. These contractors appear to be responsible for security outside the embassy building.

O, i read Wackenhut as Wacknut. Bout says it all.

Is there something else driving this pattern? Is there a core cadre of hazers and veteran mercs driving away newcomers? Is there some sort of financial incentive among the hazers or management that encourages turn over? Or is stress or PTSD driving some of these negative behaviors? Identifying the motivations and social factors involved could point the way towards addressing soldiers' needs, as well as other solutions.

I don't think it's constructive to just say "These guys are animals". We know about this because many of them have complained. What it points to is a lack of leadership and discipline on behalf of supervisors. These guys are living in a stressful environment where it's crucial to have a structure in place. There's no structure in place, therefore they're going crazy, because there's nobody in charge. This is not because they're animals. or because they're stupid, it's because their commanders are incompetent, and have created an "every man for himself" atmosphere.

This could be by design, because frankly, I'm a lot more scared by a bunch of trigger happy berserkers with state of the art weaponry than I am of soldiers that are reasonable and responsible. But if I have an issue with reasonable soldiers, I'll be more likely to try to talk to them, whereas I'd probably opt for trying to blow up berserkers.

It depends what the people at the top are going for- do they want the rest of the world to see the US as an ally that's there to help those in need, or do they want them to see us as ear-necklace-wearing barbarian conquerors? Just to be clear, I'm in favor of sanity and reason.

Follow the revolving door of federal/military personnel into contracting and their campaign contributions if you want to understand how and why this is permitted. All Federal contracting is the new spoils system of government and both political parties support it at all levels support it.

These are all having fun... Look theres nothing wrong with a little horse play in the office as long as noone gets killed...

I am not surprised by this at all. As a security professional it appears that honesty and integrity are being judged in the wrong area's. Most of these culprits will appear on other job with other contracts. I applied for this position and was shortlisted last year. Even though I didn't get the job, I am now very thankful that I didn't get the job. The entire profession of contract security has been turned over to a bunch of thugs who are bullying their way around the world. Having lived out of the USA since the early 2000's i can say that this is why we are hated around the world.

The profession needs a thorough cleaning. Will it be done? NO. to much money, bribery and corruption involved.

Just my thoughts.

We have met the enemy and he is us...Good ole Pogo, still revealing humorous truths even today long after Walt Kelly is gone. Wasn't that Albert the alligator there in the pic by the bonfire?
As far as the bullying and hazing goes, why am I not suprised, these mercs were put in place by the partyboy in chief in the war to enrich corporate amerika. They have done well, their bosses are richer than ever.

How many times have we heard that 'whistle blowers' are the ones punished? And we have laws to protect whistleblowers! And who's enforcing the laws? No one. And who blows the whistle on them for not lifting a finger? Etc.

Obama has a chance to make the conduct of this shitty little war look better. And yet they certified this firm in June 2009. The permanent war security state does not like criticism. Send this force home. Period.

Your Excellency’s wars are murdering thousands …..!

His Excellency,
President of the USA
Monsieur Barak Obama
USA

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Your Excellency,

Monsieur the President

The world is not happy in the way your government is continuing the policy of mass-murders and genocides in Afghanistan and Iraq as started by the former careless, pitiless and mass-murderer British Prime Minister Mr. Tony Blair and the former President Mr. George W Bush. People; they elected you because they wanted a change of policy, they were sick of their boys dying and killing in far off lands in nonsensical wars.

Why are you not changing your policies?

Like Europeans and Africans, the Afghanis want to have their system of elders and constitutional monarchy. This is a straight road to peace. Why force the childish, inefficient and criminal system of the so-called Western democracy system of voting on the unwilling populations. American and British Christians have killed millions trying to enforce their childish democracy and their mediocre, medieval, un-believable abd superstitious religion of Christianity.

It is enough of mass-murders and genocides, Your Excellency; May the rule of sanity and common sense begin under your government!

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Your Excellency,

I was deeply touched by the sad demise of the late Fusilier Simon Annis of Manchester, UK while on duty in Afghanistan; "just months after he weds his sweetheart", as reported in the headline of the UK Manchester Evening news of 18 Aug. 2009.

Did he die in vain?
Of course not! He died a proud soldier in the line of duty while vanity lies at the heads and hearts of the Western Christian politicians and religious leaders.

Were these soldiers who died in Christian imperial crusades in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam; were they fighting for or defending Britain or America? No, not at all!
Was there any danger of import of anything called terrorism on the British streets? No, not at all! All terrorist acts in Britain had been by British nationals who were recruited and trained by British intelligence MI5/MI6 for support of their side in the Bosnia’s religious civil war!

But what was their duty? Why were they there? i ask myself.

Were they not in a "kill or be killed combat”?
However why?
The Afghanis or Iraqis, like Vietnamese and Cambodians never did anything wrong against Manchester, New Manchester, York or New York, England or UK, not even against the former or present British Christian Empire nor against the latest version of the Roman Christian Empire –the USA’ - the American “Democracy” Empire!

(Taliban were created by American CIA, British MI6 and Pakistani ISI to defeat Russians and Osama Bin laden was a CIA agent as everybody had known by now; however, Islamic Jesuits called the Al Qaida (An Islamic branch of Christian Jesuits) -used their CIA-given arms and technology for their so-called Allah-given mission…!

And all the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis; they were neither Afghanis nor Iraqis; and there never were any WMDs in Iraq as the whole world knows it by now; then why hundreds of thousand of Iraqi children, women, old people, civilians and thousands of Americans and European soldiers had to die or get injured or handicapped with all the horrific destruction and the human misery and pain of murders, rapes, displacements and ….and …..!

Is this the Christian religion the American Christian crusaders went to spread and is this the Western way of spreading the artificial, inefficient and corrupt political system called “Western Democracy”). The Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Afghanis – like many other nations who have been victims of British/American/French Christian barbarism, had no WMDs; why their mass-murders and genocides in the imperial religious wars about nothing….?)

Why should British, German, European or American boys die in Afghanistan or Iraq in order to what the US imbecile President Bush called a Christian Crusade! Why should Europe or America’s dear sons die in far off lands while trying to kill Afghanis/Iraqis/Vietnamese in the Christian crusades and the wars of destruction and colonization, genocide and mass-murders?

Your Excellency, why...?

In his worthwhile book “British Secret Service in Action”, Mr. Kennedy Lindsay, a pro-British member of the Provincial Assembly in Northern Ireland UK, wrote in detail the British Army’s abuses of psychology and psychiatry against the innocent civilians of Northern Ireland; it also describes how British Army intelligence MI6, on the pretext of destroying the real IRA, created a Pseudo-IRA called the Provisional IRA which spread Republican religious terrorism practically under the orders of British Intelligence. Many a bomb blasts in Belfast claimed by the Provisional IRA were traced to a competent army group belonging to some overt of covert British Army unit. The British imperial military intelligence did the same in Yemen, India, and Africa; as did French/Belgique/American armies in countless other colonies: (Read “British Intelligence and Covert Action” 1984 by Bloch, Jonathan and Fitzgerald, Patrick.).

It might be of interest to Your Excellency that according to reliable American sources quoted by the American organization “Campaign for Legitimate Government”, early this year the British Intelligence MI6 and American army unit “ODA 574” decided to play the same game in Afghanistan; and now the original Taliban are nearly finished and the new British created provisional Taliban are disturbing the peace with their terrorist activities. They are getting their arms and latest high technology from the British Muslims who are well in the knowledge of British military since the days of Bosnia‘s religious civil war but are not being stopped. The new Taliban, they do not regularly engaged against British or American forces but they turned into Pakistan; in Swat, in Waziristan and other parts of Pakistan.

A horrible fact is that a majority of the Americans don't know what destruction and mass-murders their government and their military have done to Afghanistan and Iraq, empowering thugs and drug pushers and using the occupied nation to destabilize neighbouring countries.
They do not know that the notorious US murder-company Blackwater is recruiting murderers and criminals from all over the world to kill, maim or, injure or handicap almost anybody in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and kill the opponents of American fascism any other country of the world; and all this on the name of American people

All religious fundamentalism by Islamic Jesuits, well disguised as Islamic mullahs, is artificially created to provoke European and American forces who then commit murders in a fatal “kill-or-killed-combat”- an example of Mai lai in Vietnam for Afghanistan and Iraq may suffice here!

Now British army wants to stay in Afghanistan for another 20-50 years. Why? This is unpardonable imperial policy. This is naked barbarism, sheer imperialism and colonialism with the full blessings of Christian churches which blackmail and force the victims of such wars into the impossible-to-believe, incredible, medieval and superstitious Christianity.

Afghanis want to have a Constitutional Monarchy in their country; if so many countries in Europe and in the world can have Constitutional monarchy, why not Afghanis, Iraqis or Pakistanis? Why should they have this artificial, inefficient and corrupt system of Western democracy, which is merely a continuation of colonialism in new names; a system which has caused civil wars in nearly every 3rd country of the world? Why should America force its own childish ideology and inefficient “made for colonialism” political systems in other countries? Is this not the same barbaric imperialism and colonialism of last century with new tactics and techniques?
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My paternal-grandpa was an Indian, a member of the Indian National Liberation Army of gen. Subash Chandra Bosh, a defender of his country who died at the hand of my maternal-grandpa in a “kill-or-be killed combat” in a split-second advantage of luck; he was a Christian soldier – a Western Christian crusader who went to India on a mass-murdering and colonizing Christian mission called crusade...!

I am an Eur-Asian, an Anglo-Indian, wondering how should I evaluate my paternal-grandpas and with whom should I find the HONOUR...?

As one of your off-shore political supporters and loyalists, I pray for the return of common sense and sanity in the American government.

A Humanist
Switzerland
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i dont think it is right because i cant fathom a place where things like that occur. i feel that in order for justice to prevail we should thank our lucky stars every night.

Most of the losers are from the U.S. The majority of the Brits/South Africans/Australians, etc. are very professional. If you haven't been in this camp yourself, you don't know and don't have any business making allegations. Been there, seen it. It has been going on for some time and just finally came to light. One of the upper-level management was continuously covering up for the "chosen ones" who could do no wrong, even though they did wrong on a regular basis. That just led to more of the same instead of nipping it in the bud. As usual, it all comes to light sooner or later. Poor leadership is no substitute for professionalism. The same shift "forgot" two of the armored vehicles transporting the bulk of the guards during shift change early one morning after a "late night" of "partying". Magically enough, they had to make a third trip because they "forgot" one of the two originally left behind, on the second trip. All the while the "unprofessional" Nepalease guards were sitting in the back of these trucks waiting to go. Couldn't have been because they just finished their "activities" a couple of hours before time to go on duty and they were still intoxicated, could it? Bet you haven't heard that. No wonder, because that was covered up, too.

Did you all just look at the pictures or did you actually read the documents that are linked on this page? These men were pushed to the brink. Sleep deprivation (14 hr work days for up to eight weeks in a row, flipping from day shift (3 days in a row) to night shift (another 3 days in a row) does strange things to a persons mental health and stability. Supervisors working even longer hours to handle the administrative needs. Yeah, they were supposed to have 3 days off after the grueling 6 day rotation, but that didn't happen. They had to cover for the shortage of guards that was supposed to have been (as the government called it) "cured" some time ago.

These guys didn't have time to eat, sleep, deal with personal matters, or do their laundry. I'd want to go naked too if I had been wearing the same clothes for months.

Our Government and the Bosses from the security company were ALL aware of this situation for quite some time and did nothing about it until somebody posted pictures for the whole world to see.

How dare any of us judge any of them until we've lived through what they've been through. I'm sure that any person that has served during wartime or police action can tell you that it is no pleasure cruise. That the stress, fear and ongoing sleep deprivation takes its toll.

Take the time to read all the attachments before you judge these men.