Brooksville civilian worker killed in Iraq
http://www.hernandotoday.com/MGB1AZTF6TE.htmlA Brooksville man working in Iraq has been killed during a roadside bomb attack near Takrit.
Gerald Lambert Jr., 46, was killed about 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11. Two others were also injured when their truck was hit by an improvised bomb while on a security detail for an American company assisting the military in the war-torn nation. Lambert was in the second truck of a two-vehicle convoy when they came under attack.
The injured were Chuck Meier, 36, of Sunrise, and Ajith Tyrell Senarath Grero from Sri Lanka. Lambert was a security specialist working for SOC-SMG, a Minden, Nev., company. He was hired last Feb. 6 to work in the company’s mobile security element contract in Iraq.
Initial reports from the field indicate that the convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) that wounded Meier, who was then rescued by his comrades. The second vehicle was attacked by another IED, killing Lambert. The two wounded men are receiving medical attention.
THESE GUYS GET LOTS OF CONTRACTS
http://www.defenselink.mil/Contracts/Contract.aspx?ContractID=3080 SOC-SMG Inc., Minden, Nev., was awarded on Aug. 17, 2005, a $6,266,287 firm-fixed-price contract for Internal Security Operations. Work will be performed at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on July 21, 2005, and 30 bids were received. The Joint Contracting Command, Iraq, is the contracting activity (W27P4A-05-C-0011).
CHECK OUT THIS ONE--THESE THUGS ARE TOTING MACHINE GUNS ON US SOIL
http://www.kurd.org/newsletters/20050118171449.html#5WASHINGTON - A private security company staffed by former elite U.S. special-forces soldiers will provide security at polling places in the United States for people voting in Iraq's Jan. 30 parliamentary election.
Though U.S. officials said they were unaware of any specific threats to Iraqis voting in the United States or attempts to intimidate them, the hiring of Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group (SOC-SMG) of Minden, Nev., suggested that there's concern about possible attacks or attempts to intimidate voters.
In Iraq, SOC-SMG reportedly employs some 300 former U.S. military personnel to protect VIPs, convoys and American contractors involved in disposing of weapons caches. The former special-forces soldiers who work for the company are skilled in using a range of weapons, including American- and Soviet-designed light machine guns
at $2,000.00 a day per Thug