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PMC in Africa

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How does one (with prior military experience) get into the private security/PSD industry in South Africa, or other African countries?

Is it as saturated as the companies in the US?
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>>31635306
You have to know someone who happens to know someone
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>>31635306
PMCs were outlawed in South Africa nearly 20 years ago. The best security work you'll get there is driving a cash in transit truck or patrolling a mall with an R4. It's not as lawless as you think it is.
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>>31635357
yeah but some other african countries still have them although someone needs to reccomend you
i don't think you just can go there and be a PMC
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>>31635335
Fuck...
>>31635357
Anywhere else outside of SA then?
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>>31635363
South China Sea shipping companies. Japanese whaling boats. Work for China in darfur. Just to name a few
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>>31635306

Why do you want to be a goon? It's a shit job.

In Africa the coolest "operator"-like job is poach hunter killer.

They call it natural reserve guard or some shit. In reality they're units of ex-SF or ex-grunts with combat experience that paint themselves like coons and kill the fuck out of any filthy poacher.

If you love animals, operating and nature its quite the job.

Look up "Silent Heroes" etc... tons of organizations around.
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>>31635435
like virunga rangers
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>>31635478

Yeah.

It's a very special job and lifestyle but if one's tired of living in modern Babylon it's a neat way of life, operating and living in nature.

And you also do a great service to beautiful animals like rhinos.


Much better than being a minimum wage goon with shit-tier gear on a shit-tier mission to escort some fuck doing shady deals in a port and risking your life to do shit jobs nobody else wants to do

imo
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>>31635435
>Look up "Silent Heroes" etc... tons of organizations around.
The closest thing I see is IAPF, and even then you're not armed, and it seems it's a volunteer unpaid position.
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>>31635435
Mostly a myth, those guys are just doing support, training, and recon for the .gov conservation officers. Still awesome work, but they're not getting in firefights with poachers except in very rare situations. Definitely more Peace Corps than Marine Corps.
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>>31635306
your shit out of luck friend , the ANC and most other African countries have Banned PMC (mercenary) . since 1999 all security companies go through government agencies to get minor security jobs and 70 % of their work force has to go to locals , think 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi for example , most of their security was Libyans , same thing applies to PMC .

the years of Mad Mike Hoare , Dogs of war and Executive Outcomes have passed and for many good reasons

the only old boys you'll find around are the Koevoets and they are much to old for that BS of fighting , they mostly advise and train . the only reason they do it is for that retirement pay
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/south-africas-ageing-white-mercenaries-who-helped-turn-tide-on-boko-haram . sorry friend but this is a old club youll never be apart of
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>>31637250
>sorry friend but this is a old club youll never be apart of
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>>31635306
>have extensive SOF and train-the-trainer experience
>be senior enlisted or field grade officer
>have extensive contacts with people with wealth and power already, in the area, in the industry
So...yeah. Yes it is as (if not more) saturated than the American industry unless you wanna be making $10/hr guarding a gate with no body armor and either no weapon or just a pistol with a high chance of getting shot at by nogs.
>or other African countries
Manage to impress a random warlord and hope you survive his cronies/the environment/the rampant STD's for $40,000USD a year. Pray he doesn't expect you to actually be useful because all your "coworkers" are useless and 1 man does not an army make.
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>>31635306
He closest thing you'll get is provate security and defending oil fields
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Private security for mines and oil fields. Mainly just security detail at ex-pat compounds and material shipments. Looking after big wigs who come visit. Clearing away locals who get sacked from the mines and come back ready to kill the bosses

Good pay, clean bed every night, normal hours. Loaded up to the teeth and ready to roll.

you just have to be out in the middle of buttfuck nowhere congo with expensive booze and AIDS riddled hookers
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>>31635306
Someone else just finished watching that new Netflix movie I see.

The time for that is long gone. The west is no longer willing, and the now only China gives a shit about expanding into Africa. It could of course all turn back, Africa seems to always be on the edge, but the glory days of white mercenaries tooling around in Africa are now just a memory. I would learn French if I was you though.
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>>31635306
I know a senator that can hook you up, want his contact?
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>>31639512
>Senator

Lame. My dad works at Nintendo.
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>>31639620
We used to play college ball together, y'know? Contacts happen.
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>mfw theres no mercenary armies where all scum of the earth goes when theres nothing else
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>>31639638
I'm just memeing. But if you really knew a senator your favor would be asking him to vouche for a rando on 4chan?

I mean maybe. I have had a guy on /ck/ invite me to go skydiving before.
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>>31639659
I remember I once world-builded for a novel where the entirety of human society was contained to a mega-super city, and there were designated "Fighting zones" that were just perpetual war between PMC's and mercenary groups fighting for gold, money, and pardons that were dropped off across the area.
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>>31639669
Just nevermind it, I was making relatively obscure references.
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>>31639708
K. It wasn't that walstreet movie with Charlie sheen and Mike Douglas, was it?
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>>31639731
No it was to MGR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-25SPLjmw
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>>31639442
Name of the movie?
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>>31639329
first you don't get the most expensive toys , youll get set up with what the company can provide you with and that usually old AKs,shotguns and maybe one pkm .

secondly if and when the workers/locals get pissed off enough to want blood , they come back in force and with what ever the soviet union left or the A.U lost which is always AKs RPGs , PKMs and what ever else

Thirdly as for clean environment it up to you want what you can do with what you have

and last but not least , Hookers and Booze leave it alone !

ex contract truck driver , been almost up and down Africa . FYI don't work for Indians they pay list shit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRKrwnZqsw

Guys, is being a child soldier as fun as Beasts of No Nation makes it seem to be? I'm too old to be one, but I kinda want to join up with some African warlord or some PMC group and do some fun shit like this
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>>31635435
>kill the fuck out of any filthy poacher.


More like they kill the fuck out of poor natives hunting meat.
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>>31642040
It's "fun" in the way you'll get beaten, raped, brainwashed, sent as cannonfodder and then discarded with no pay once you've outlived your usefulness.
That's if you survive the lack of logistics and healthcare. If the bullets don't get you, illnesses will.

Now, as for being one of the guys that beat the child soldiers into shape... they are at best glorified thugs.
Sure, life is fun for them during the civil war because, in peace time, the BEST they can hope for is being a lowly private with nobody under them and no room for initiative. Most would just end up as farmer, miner or any other low-skill low-pay deadend job.
During the war, they can loot/rape/kill as much as they want and style themselves as "officers" because their "soldiers" are kids who will swallow it, the civilians won't dare to complain and hierarchy doesn't care as long as the job is done.

Still, the "loot" is meager.
Enough of an incentive if you had NOTHING and were barely scrapping a living before, what with being a petty king with as much pussy and booze you can find until you get shot.
But if you are posting on this board, I guess your situation is at least 10 times more comfy as theirs would ever be.
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>>31639808
The Siege of Jadotville
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