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  2. Blackwater (company) - Wikipedia

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    Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997, [2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. [ 5 ]

  3. Private military company - Wikipedia

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    A private military company (PMC) or private military and security company (PMSC) is a private company providing armed combat or security services for financial gain. PMCs refer to their personnel as " security contractors " or " private military contractors ".

  4. Triple Canopy - Wikipedia

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    Triple Canopy, Inc., is an American private security company and private military company (PMC) that provides armed security, mission support, and risk management services to corporate and government clients.

  5. Blackwater (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Blackwater is a first-person shooter video game developed by Zombie Studios with the player assuming the role of a Blackwater Worldwide contractor. The game was first revealed at E3 in 2011, and was later released that year on the Xbox 360 , published by 505 Games . [ 2 ]

  6. Al Clark (mercenary) - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Clark was a founder of the private security firm Blackwater, along with Erik Prince. They created Blackwater in 1997 as a business for assuming some of the roles once played by the public sector military, most notably providing security for American and British officials in the Iraq War. Clark joined the United States Navy in 1983 and ...

  7. 2004 Fallujah ambush - Wikipedia

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    The 2004 Fallujah ambush occurred on March 31, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy containing four American contractors from the private military company Blackwater USA who were conducting a delivery for food caterers ESS.

  8. Grizzly APC - Wikipedia

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    The Grizzly is manufactured by Blackwater Armored Vehicle, a division of Academi (formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide and Xe Services LLC), in a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m 2) factory in Camden, North Carolina. [5] It was scheduled to begin production in April 2007 and Blackwater predicted production of at least a vehicle a day to meet demand.

  9. Nisour Square massacre - Wikipedia

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    Just before noon on September 16, 2007, a car bomb exploded near the Izdihar Compound where US and Iraqi officials were meeting, [20]: 547 and a 19-man Blackwater Tactical Support Team (TST) consisting of a convoy of four trucks, answering to the call sign "Raven 23", took up positions on the south side of Nisour Square to secure an evacuation route for the US officials and another Blackwater ...