The Modern Day Bruce Wayne’s - A Blackwater Rescue Mission
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- It has been said that the founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is like the modern-day Bruce Wayne. If you take a closer look into his life, from the time he was a child to founding Blackwater, an American private military company, you will come to understand his drive to solve America's problems. One of the missions they conducted as a team was during Hurricane Katrina. Blackwater set up an HQ in downtown New Orleans and prevented looters from looting and provided security during the relief efforts to bring the place back to law and order. As Erik Prince said, Blackwater was good at making things happen.
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Don't scare me like that ever. I bet bill gates a very nice person but I thought you put him as a modern day batman on your thumbnail.
This is like a breath of fresh air… BUT there is a reason Commissioned Officers like Eric Prince leave the USMIL, and it is because of “Analysis Paralysis”. The USMIL, in the planning process, analyzes themselves into Inaction. Instead of following their own doctrine of making a tentative plan, and refining it on the ground; which is exactly what Blackwater Operators were AMAZING at doing… “There is a difference between impossible and hard, and very few things are actually impossible”.
There’s been a reason NCOs leave also . When my grandfather retired instead of doing a 4th tour in Vietnam he had seen combat in ww2 (battle of Manila) Korea , and Vietnam . When he was in 1st Cav airmobile he did not find the “body count” plan viable and he told everyone who would listen , he and other Senior NCOs and COs thought it wiser to fight as they had before taking interior lines and bringing superior forces to bear - mauling the enemy but also taking and keeping ground they had fought for . By 68-69 all of the NCOs with previous conventional combat experience were rotated out and westmoreland continued his tactics . My grandfather may have died in the end from agent orange but he chose to come home and raise his two boys rather than earn another stripe and maybe never come home . Rest in peace grandfather . I know that house in the country wasn’t worth all he had to kill to get it , but he was an honorable man who fought for the man beside him even when the larger objective made little sense or had little relevance to the safety and prosperity of the United States . First sergeant Herb Eubanks 37th ID 148th reg. , 16th constabulary Berlin airlift, 1st Cav Korea , 11air assault/ 1st Cav airmobile Div Arty , 1/77 , 1/82 Arty “woodpeckers”
@@ae1586I am 🇨🇦and My Grandfather served in WW2. I remember being very little and dragging out this raggedy old leather photo album that was clearly handmade and the paper inside was threaded into the leather with strips of thin leather poked through holes in the Center of the pages so they could be double sided and it was crammed FULL of photos. There I am, not even in Grade 1 yet, looking through old war photos that could have been in TIME Magazine given the composition, subject and quality (I had seen them again when I was MUCH MUCH older to make that opinion.) and not even phased at the photos that had bodies in them…..and then there is a photo somewhere in the middle as I was leafing through this old album, of my Grandfather in FULL Dress Uni with a chest of medals and it took me a minute before I realized THAT is MY “GRAMPA”! And I let out a scream that could have broken glass, I am told, and my Grandfather came running and picked me up like a tiny rag doll and said “What’s wrong honey? Are you ok, did you see a Spider?” And I pointed at the book and just squeezed his neck so tight he couldn’t talk while I just sobbed and sobbed and he was finally able to free himself of his tiny Grandaughter’s grip and I will never forget his face when I pointed at the old wrinkled album and said “GRAMPA! You were in the Army! YOU COULD HAVE DIED! DO NOT EVER GO BACK THERE!”. Apparently I was quite upset and forceful that if he went back he would die….to the point that I had nightmares of him fighting and shooting and being all dirty in his “Camo’s” with his face all dirty (paint) and I described the nightmare at breakfast the next morning and he told me I should not look at that book anymore. (He had already hidden it of course.) Later that afternoon we were outside playing in the backyard and I just stopped and looked at my Grandfather and said “Grampa, are you still sad that Jonesy never came home? I think he misses you too.”. My Grandfather went white as a ghost…..apparently “Jonesy” was his buddy from the war and he was KIA. Of course I never found any of this out until I was in my early 20’s and about a year before my Grandfather passed he told me about his time in “The Army”. It wasn’t the Canadian Army. He was doing “special work” for someone in the Government that he knew who called and needed his help. (His words) He was a good friend so I couldn’t let him down because you have to remember that good friends are for life honey. So I went away for awhile to a different Country and had to take some pictures with a tiny camera like the one I showed you downstairs in my “Shop”. That’s why it was tiny. I had to hide it from people. Just remember that the photo album you saw is in the Safety Deposit Box at the Bank and it really isn’t something you should ever show anyone for a long long time ok? It will be yours one day honey and just look after it but keep it safe and don’t show other people. Promise me?” And of course I said yes and then I asked him if I could ask him some questions about the “different” Uniform and the medals he had on in that photo that made me cry when I was little. He said, very softly but firm, No. So I asked him if I could EVER ask him about his “Special Book” as it became known. Again, a soft but firm, No. Then he turned to me and said that he had one question for me but then we were done ever talking about the Special Book. I said ok and he asked me how did I ever know who Jonesy was because there isn’t a photo of him in the Special book and I know I have never told anyone about him or even said his name since I came home. So I told him what I remembered. “Grampa, he was here, he showed me where the Special Book was and then he left and said he missed you but he is ok.”. My Grandfather just looked at me for what felt like forever……and he finally spoke and his eyes were starting to well up and he said “Honey, that isn’t possible. He died during a Mission.” And then he stopped talking very abruptly and he kept his word. He never spoke of it again. I have kept my promise and never shown anyone the Special Book but I always look for something that looks like that Uniform as I remembered it to look as the Special Book is all sealed up air tight and safe. I don’t have children so I am not sure what I will do with it as I get closer to “My Time” but I sure do wish I would not have made that promise as I would love to be able to ask so many many questions about those photos as well as the where and when and WHY. Even my Grandmother had never seen that book and she never asked to. She knew very little about his time when he was away “Working for a Friend” Is all he ever told my Grandmother. My Fathers side of the family as that Grandfather was my Mothers, Father, is and was with the 🇨🇦Military for three or four Generations and I know that my Uncle was a Spook of some sort as that is what my Father called him. I have thought about asking him as the memory from when I found it is still so vivid and the pride that came out in what you wrote about your Grandfather was so amazing and you are clearly so very proud of him❤️, while I am also proud of my Grandfather for so many many reasons, none of them are about serving in that Uniform as I don’t know what to be proud about. He was a great man so I can not imagine it was anything nefarious but I am still so very very curious. I guess I will wait a bit longer and then ask some people who may know and while It is intriguing….curiosity killed the cat. I do not want to find out something nefarious. The time will present itself when it is right. Of that, I am sure. Be well and thank you for sharing your history. He sounds like he was a wonderful man with a pure heart. They are rare and your pride is well placed.
@@ae1586 - the brass only knows how to stay shiny. And don't care who bleeds for it.
Thank you to your grandfather. He sounds like a good and honorable man.
I don't know if you familiar with the CZcams channel "China Uncensored", they are one of the few media platforms that cover China in a critical way. One of Prince's companies (which is 60% owned by the CCP) hires former Navy Seals to teach PLA soldiers US special operation techniques to combat us in a future conflict. Honestly, I'm not trying to be a troll, I love Ryan's content; but the fact is Prince and former SEALs are training up our geopolitical rival. Former RAF pilots are also training their AF to combat F -35s; straight treason if you ask me.
@@tovah2276 put it in one sentence
I did recovery/repair post Katrina. We had Blackwater security at the hotel just by the airport, and a separate Blackwater guy at our central office. It was pure anarchy. Just wildland. I did two different stints down there, and it was night & day the 2nd rotation. Mr. Prince is being modest when saying local LE was overwhelmed. They were non-existent. There were cops from all over the world in there the second time I went down. We set up the first cell point on the side of a 22 story building. It was a T-Mobile switch and we tie wrapped & duct taped the antenna as high up as I could climb on the security fence on the 8th floor. It was just a wild experience.
That is what a CEO sounds like.
Professional and what a man.
I had no idea
No idea
Watched this episode a while back, freaking amazing. This is the kind of person we need on our side. We need a lot more of him to deal with what's going on all around us. Thanks for the content
Saw the original episode but still love these clips. Wants you to go back and watch the full episode. Thanks for everything and you are doing a fantastic job.
I was driving for Walmart when Katrina hit. Out of Bedford Pa. They asked for volunteers to drive water down there. So I did. Waited 24 hrs sitting in my truck waiting to get loaded. Then stopped at a Fema camp they unloaded me. Left only to find out they never used the water bottles. 78 tons on skids. Let government get involved and it becomes a shite show.
Remember all the water in Puerto Rico they wasted and didn’t share with the public?
Other than death and taxes, you can always 100% count on government to fk things up. Case in point - America.. the federal government has done nothing but grow exponentially under this dumpster fire of an administration after Trump shrunk the govt and got rid of a load of regulations and red tape. If the elites, deep state scum steal this election again we are so fuct. I can’t even imagine how bad it will be. I knew when the current idiot took over we were in for it but never thought it would get this bad
I flew on your Casa 212’s in Afghanistan for 3 years I actually enjoyed that better than a C-130 flying out of Salerno we were hugging the deck flying a canyon or river bed you could see Ma and Pa Kettle on the ground in their mud huts pass the Cherrios and when it was all over Thank you for flying with Blackwater.. best good times!
Just another example of how the private sector does things way more efficiently than the train wreck called GOVERNMENT
BW did stuff the military (leadership) wouldn’t do or couldn’t do. Proud to have been a member of the club. In New Orleans we beat everyone but CBP but they had no vehicles and no logistics.
Imagine you were in the 9th lower too , then when we told the State we were not going to take guns away from civilians that were policing themselves fema & State tasked the nat guard
Make it Happen ! Love that quote.
09/04/2005 The Danziger Bridge Incident: NOPD used recently confiscated firearms as "dropguns" to cover up the homiciide of 2 unarmed men on Danziger bridge. Top brass helped them try to cover it up, but the entire thing just happened to be caught on camera by a news crew on the next bridge over. Following that incident, local cops were pulled & these guys were called in to handle the situation...
several years later the 5 or 6 key officers were convicted, but they were barely given a slap on the wrist & most of the charges were dropped by the prosecutor. really wish more ppl knew about this
I've heard of it and remember it. My C-5 aircrew and I flew a huge Navy Generator into Belle Chase about 4 days after Katrina hit. I saw some of the devastation down there.
The entire Prince family are amazing. Ed Prince - one of the great aumotive accessorie inventors - built a family compound just outside my hometown of Cody Wyoming. Sadly Ed passed away before the project was finished. I laid sod outside the guest 4 plex and "The Chuck Wagon " so named because it was a full commercial kitchen that could feed 100? 150? people. They have a huge plane hanger at the airport in Cody. I have nothing unkind to say about this family. It is sad that Mr. Prince passed away before he could see his vision completed.
I believe Ed invented the “vanity mirror”, as I correct?
@@jordan5881 from my understanding he added a light to a mirror that another major automobile manufacturer had the patent for - among a lot of other things.
@@silverss396chevelle that’s right!
Yeah his pops made some chalupas with the sun visor invention but some of their beliefs are a bit off
Yeah... but that "sun visor" was a Billion and half dollar buy out in 96... so yeah sun visor...
Born and raised in New Orleans. This man is a hero. I don't care what people say.
Here is what happened when Erik gave the right guys some training, little bird helicopters, and a clear mission: czcams.com/video/mHt51WxKkOE/video.html
GREAT video!! BW Aviation were true Heroes of OIF!!
"Fly to New Orleans, we'll just figure it out." The mark of a true leader with front sight focus.
Peak example of problem solving.
Crazy thing is, now that Academi/ former BW is part of Constellis, they (Constellis) holds some of the largest chunks of the FPS and WPS (OCONUS) contracts with the gov. I've worked both contracts for them in the past.
Honestly, Erik did a much better job running BW/ Academi with apt staff and rapid function operations than the mired corporate structure Constellis uses now-- and they pay less now too.
Great example of when great leaders don't micro-manage their subordinates: “here is what I need you to do, get it done”.
Lol. We sent seal team 6 to gaurd Walmart!! Lol. That’s awesome!! 👀💪🇺🇸💯😎
Big fan of Mr. Prince. Read his book... I, as an American would just say Thank You.
👍🙏💝I love these interviews on this channel. Thanks you. 🙏💝
Is there any better evidence that our Government is the wrong place to turn in an emergency? The private sector will always handle these situations faster, cheaper, with far less calamity.
Thank you for everything!
Erik is just one of those Men that you want on the wall and will knock down any wall to get the mission done. Like you All, He is a Patriot and a American Hero. 🙏🏾🙌🏾🤛🏾🇺🇸
Lol he’s doing it for the millions you clown
I believe this was my first interview to watch. At a minimum it was this one that got me hooked
Amazing work
This was an AWESOME interview. Blackwater was THE BEST at "making it happen".
We need a blackwater 2.0
Love him or hate him Erik Prince got shit done.
I could listen to him for another 5 hours
Crazy stuff. Theres a great book about Katrina, its called "5 days at memorial" or something like that, it details the story of the hospital in downtown New Orleans and how workers and patients got trapped there, the company that owns the hospital basically left them on their own. Its a mind blowing story, one of the main people in the story is a nurse they tried to convict regarding patients being put to death, its really something how much crazy shit went down in that place. The authors name is Sheri Fink. Read it.
it got made into a really good mini-series on Apple TV also.
How much did that gates job pay ?
@@TimothyMcVayProbably north of 500k if it paid for a military vehicle for them
This guy is so smart it’s incredible
It hurts me hearing his story. Breaks my damn heart.
This guy is very interesting. I would love to hear more stories from him
I love that stuff ... Make it happen ...
The Walton family knew who to call to protect the family business. Nice to have a PMC in the family.
I remember in 2005 I just came home from my Afghanistan deployment and I went to my gym workout with the boys and I met this guy in the locker room he was a recruiter for a private security company that’s looking for ex soldiers. It wasn’t blackwater I forgot the name
Bullshit
Thank God for my father who did serve but talked myself out of participating in our military🙏thank you dad! You were correct🔥💪🏼now, we have grown men wearing dresses in our military barking at all of us🤣
Nice.
3 years................... lmao the way that was said and reacted to was perfect
We where securing banks with BP we also helped in California , relief effort
It's fascinating how the Gates office communication came through the person from the CIA.... I always had a hunch there was a strong connection between the two parties.
LOL dont drop your tinfoil hat
The CIA/OSS were heavily influenced, if not created, by Rockefeller, the gate family is a part of Rockefeller Foundation insiders. Gates is most likely a front man for their interests.
It's ironic how the same mainstream smear campaign that came up with the "tin foil hat" insult, has now exhorted if not demanded people to wear two masks and a visor. And the unthinking unquestioning masses adopted it, while still throwing around "tin foil hat" as a legitimate dismissal of anyone that doesn't swallow the current narrative of the corporate press.
Erik is a LEDGEND and Great American. Really tragic how the Federal Government and the media literally shit all over him.
Gettin shit on by those bastards is a right of passage, a badge of honor.
He is a piece of shit white supremacist. Stop licking his ass fanboy
Legend maybe but great American? That’s a hard sell
@@Obsessed.garagehe served his country they found the person to point their fingers and pointed to him
Little late on your videos but..Shawn that was a good one!!
Best boss I ever had. Sorry domestic enemies hosed him. Prince 2024?
I'd sure as hell vote for him!
@@thebronzetoo you would?
@@Obsessed.garage Did I stutter?
@@thebronzetoo based off your reply I could picture someone with your lack of intelligence to possibly speak with a stutter but it would be impossible to know from a comment that was typed online. Good try though.
@@Obsessed.garage what's super funny is that you actually think I give two shits what you think/say. 🤣
My aunt was the bell south liaison in NOLA after Katrina. She had Blackwater men with her. She said it was like Somalia down there for the first week or so.
Management by Objective (MBO) is a way of life!
Why do people hate this former company so much? I've even heard them compared to the Wagner Group. I'm not sure that's fair. From what I've seen, these guys don't have the psychopathic, sadistic evil that the Russians have.
If there's something I should know and people I should despise, I need to know why.
I miss BlackWater. Operations were never the same after they left theater. I could count on BW before QRF, CAS, MEDIVAC...basically anything that had a military chain of command that had to run a never-ending risk assessment to make any decision whatsoever.
We ALL beat the National Guard to their own state. Lol
Note: I wasn’t even working for Blackwater at the time of Katrina. There were quite a few companies out there.
He left out the fact that the government he was helping unlawfully detained and searched people’s homes and took their guns. Not criminals but law abiding citizens who were trying to protect themselves and their families.
… Pls
ReOpen the PMC for the
US Border interjections! 🇺🇸🗽
👍🇺🇸making it happen
That's what the private sector is all about
weren't they doing some disarming also during that time?
The Ky NG beat the LA NG to LA. It was before I ever got in but I remember the stories. As soon as they got word that they were going to be sent the KYNG went. The LA NG had orders to pull the majority of their guys out of LA, and then go back in.
I actually think that makes sense, if you have vehicles in a flattened vehicle bay, you don't have vehicles, but the optics of such a thing to the populace don't look good when all these other states are beating the LA national guard to the punch.
Protecting Walmart that paid a lot of help. Piss on that and protect the family businesses. But good job 👍🏻
Chalk another one up for the private sector!
god id love 2 hear the stories he wont tell~!
Those fed cops sounds like treason
Not gonna lie
Aren't most of them?
This video alone makes me think every American should be carrying a weapon.
This is why you can never count on anything federal government to protect at save you! X military personnel as contractors now how to act and accomplish whatever needs to be done!! Support all our military especially spec ops!!
Safety means your work will definitely make it very unsafe
" 6 underground " 😈
Yeah bro, evacuating people at gunpoint and force them to leave I seen that footage
DDDDAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNN 💯🙏🇺🇸
Good guys working for BAD GUYS are still bad guys that's how we got here BABYLON
Or Elizabeth Smart or about the little girl who solved her own Cold Case Files
Now we are finding out that Blackrock is evil
You ever watch that Dateline report about baby Sabrina
This and his fellow men and others with Monday know how are true Americans and, will effectively get shit done the right way and with a fast response time
256 BCT was deployed in Baghdad, so chill on the you beat the LANG into French Quarter
America
The government just becomes so big and cumbersome and full of rules and to many ignorant people in charge. It's always happens.
Private industry performs better than the government yet again.. shocker.
This guy realized getting paid 65k a year to risk your life and be the tio of the spear wasnt worth it. I imagine alot of people dont realize seals and teir 1 guys dont even make 100k a year, yeah they have awesome benifits. But its shitth when we have ball players making half a billion
I need me a pair of Prince's shoes..
What brand is that?
Comando team in disterbution center ...wow 😊
Imagine how Much Money Home boy is Making of the US Government aka Tax Payers....
More Power To him make The Mulla 💪🙌
youll see
Wasn’t his company the one that was overcharging the govt?
US govt and the liberal media blackballed this guy ........
✝️🇺🇸🦅✌🏻
Nice to be a billionaire
Doesn't keeping my name sealed and that privacy thing only allow them to keep me as a victim and hostage
With government u play by the rule or u will be dry
Looking for a job #Blackwater #Erik prince
What happened to this guys! Are they even operational now?
As long as the checks clear
To Blackwater? It's now called Academi and is part of Constellis, a corporate conglomerate Security umbrella that also owns Triple Canopy, Centerra Group, Olive Group, TDI, AMK9, Omniplex, and a few others. I've worked for them in the past.
Erik does public speaking stuff, but also has a stake in Frontier Resource Group and Frontier Services Group, a Logistics and Security conglomerate that specializes in the energy and mineral industries, and is involved with Unplugged, a communications platform, he also owns/ runs Blackwater Worldwide, that offshoot company makes ammo and firearms and firearm components.
@@DJTheMetalheadMercenary Thanks, yeah cuz I saw their hiring ads in South Asia and was wondering if it’s the same guys
@@AA-gw2ry Who, Frontier Resource/ Services Group?
@@DJTheMetalheadMercenary No , black water is hiring armed guards there
Hell Yeah ! Shooting at EMTs in the 9th ...
Their were a few. Talented Warriors. But. Could have been better. I don know how. He hired. I heard it was all by recommended s by others. I don know if anybody who got hired any other way rlse. Which limited their. Talent
Did you guys also know that little girl that was drowned he was paid to pretend to be my father
Bruce Wayne's what?
They hit me up for that but I was already in Iraq
This is what started the "everything is racist " movement
America needs Blackwater more than Blackwater needs America
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Damn right! Perfect example of how someone who knows how to get stuff done, gets it done while the Government stumbles over its feet.
I just wanna know how many people y'all killed? Alot of people got shot by people who looked like Law Enforcement!
What did they do Nothing good
Black Waster what???
So private security contractors can guard property with the backing of the federal government and use deadly force but the private citizen can be charged for doing the same (Kyle Rittenhouse) Just gonna let that sink in.
So these are the guys who were shooting at ppl on the bridge?
I was never a ass kisser