"If something is needed, and we have it, they call us." says CEO Paul Lombardi of DynCorp, which has donated approximately $70,000 to the Republican party.
http://www.dyncorp.com/ As Dave Baum from Wired Magazines reported, "The DynCorp outfit contracted to train the new Iraqi police force. Government contracts account for 98% of DynCorp's business. DynCorp contracts with more than 30 U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense, State Department, FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency, Bureau of Prisons, and the Office of National Drug Policy.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.htmlAbout half of DynCorp's revenue comes from the Pentagon and many of its employees are retired military men. The rest of the contracts are mostly with civilian government agencies; more than 20,000 employees in more than 550 locations.
Baum notes that DynCorp troops bodyguard Afghan president Hamid Karzai. DynCorp manages the border posts between the US and Mexico, many of the Pentagon's weapons-testing ranges, and the entire Air Force One fleet of presidential planes and helicopters.
During the Persian Gulf War, DynCorp employees serviced and rearmed American combat choppers, and DynCorp shipped and deployed equipment and ammunition to the Middle East in preparation for war with Iraq.
DynCorp inventories everything seized by the Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture Program, runs the Naval Air Warfare Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, and is producing the smallpox and anthrax vaccines the government may use to inoculate everyone in the United States.
The de-mining of Bosnia has been contracted out to DynCorp. The International Police Task Force that is training the native police in Bosnia & Haiti are DynCorp employees. Many of the U. N. peacekeepers in Kosovo are civilian DynCorp employees. DynCorp also operates in Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Columbia, managing the United States government's counter narcotics aviation program, contracted to DynCorp Aerospace Technology for approximately $99 million.
DynCorp has been criticized in the past for its involvement with Plan Colombia, which entailed spraying herbicide on cocaine plants in Colombia. A class action suit was filed against DynCorp by a group of Ecuadorean peasants claiming that the chemicals have drifted across the border, killing children, and destroying legitimate crops.
"U.S. taxpayers are unwittingly funding private wars with private soldiers.", said Rep. Janice Schakowsky, D-Ill.
One concern is that the employees of DynCorp operate without any government oversight. The overriding risk is that the corp’s bottom line may take precedence over military priorities.
DynCorp was compelled to drop its planned appeal of an employment tribunal's ruling that the corporation unfairly dismissed a woman who outed the corporation-supplied U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia for participating in child prostitution and associating with Balkan prostitution rings, in order to gain the $50 million U.S. State Department contract to provide the police officers to Iraq.
In a separate lawsuit Dyncorp settled out of court with another former employee, Ben Johnston, a mechanic, who alleged the firm's staff engaged in inhumane behavior and bought women, forged passports and traded illegal weapons. U.S. personnel recruited by the firm to work in Iraq will reportedly have to pledge not to get involved in human trafficking.
http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2001-12-06/feature.html/page1.htmlMods: These are excerpts from my book, Power Of Mischief:
http://www.returningsoldiers.us/pompage.htm 
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