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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 10:39 AM
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maybe prince of blackwater fame is a former seal
Edited on Tue Oct-02-07 10:46 AM by madokie
I spent a tour of duty at the USN S.E.R.E., survival, escape, resistance, evade school in warner springs California back in '68-'69, somewhere around a hundred of us in numbers at any one time and we all participated in the training, different tasks with different classes, so with that experience I think this 'bad boy' would have had a real rough time going through Survival training while I was there, that smirk would have been slapped off his face real damn quick like.

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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 10:45 AM
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1. From the title, I thought this was about "the artist formerly known as" and mammalian reincarnation
Edited on Tue Oct-02-07 10:48 AM by paxmusa
On Edit: ah, Blackwater fame, helps clarify.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 10:47 AM
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2. I think I fixed that
I just want to slap him into tomorrow so I didn't catch the ommission ;-)
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 10:55 AM
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3. short bio
Erik Prince (born June 6, 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is the founder and owner of the military support contractor Blackwater USA. A millionaire and former US Navy SEAL, after high school he briefly attended the United States Naval Academy before attending and graduating from Hillsdale College. After college, he earned a commission in the United States Navy after joining in 1992, and served as a Navy SEAL officer on deployments to Haiti, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, including Bosnia. When his father Edgar Prince unexpectedly died in 1995, he ended his Navy service prematurely. After Erik's mother, Elsa Prince, sold the family's automobile parts company, Prince Corporation, for $1.3 billion to Johnson Controls, Inc., Erik moved to Virginia Beach and personally financed the formation of Blackwater USA at the age of 27.

Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Michigan and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president and Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos.<1>

Prince's first wife, Joan Nicole Prince, died of cancer in 2003, and he has since remarried and has six children. He now runs Prince Group, Blackwater's parent company, from an office in McLean, Virginia and also serves as a board member of Christian Freedom International, a nonprofit group with a mission of helping "Christians who are persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 11:02 AM
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4. thanks
I don't like him
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 11:05 AM
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5. Not many do, he's the anti-Christ...
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lazer47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 11:06 AM
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6. Okie, you already know this group are a bunch of cowboys and
wannabes and in a real firefight they would be the ones looking,, and the rest doing..
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 11:11 AM
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7. You know it ;-)
soldiers of fortune. I'm just glad I wasn't having to deal with mercernaries back in my day as I'd prolly be locked up still
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