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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 ]
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 ]
The Zen Portable Media Center by Creative, which was the first player based on PMC Portable Media Center (PMC) is a portable media player (PMP) platform developed by Microsoft . Announced at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and released in early 2004, it was originally positioned as a competitor to Apple's iPod . [ 1 ]
David Stirling, founder of the SAS, founded a PMC in the 1960s.. Modern PMCs trace their origins back to a group of ex-SAS veterans in 1965 who, under the leadership of the founder of the SAS, David Stirling and John Woodhouse, founded WatchGuard International (formerly with offices in Sloane Street before moving to South Audley Street in Mayfair) as a private company that could be contracted ...
Loadout was a free-to-play multiplayer third-person shooter developed by Edge of Reality. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows, then co-published as a special PlayStation 4 version with P-40 Online Entertainment. Loadout focused on arcade-style multiplayer firefights across a variety of modes and used exaggerated cartoon gore. Players ...
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 ...
Consulting. Formerly known as Blackwater and Xe and it is part of the Constellis Group. American International Security Corp: Woburn, MA: Dissolved Custer Battles: McLean, VA: Iraq and oil sector (at present, have ceased operations in Iraq) Dissolved Jorge Scientific Corporation: Arlington, VA: Consulting KBR: Houston, TX: Formerly a Division ...
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 ...