How to Become a Private Military Operator

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Private military operators are trained soldiers who conduct military operations in foreign countries. Companies like Academi (formerly Blackwater) and Aegis Defense Services hire private military operators to perform specialist tasks in security, counter-insurgency and covert operations, sometimes for foreign governments and corporations, at other times under contract with the Department of Defense, Homeland Security or another U.S. government agency.

Job Description

Private military companies operate independently of U.S. military forces, although they sometimes cooperate with them. Nevertheless, all of the private military operators (often called "contractors") working for these companies are experienced soldiers, almost exclusively veterans of elite U.S. military units like Delta Force and Navy SEAL.

When you sign up for employment with one of these companies, expect hazardous working conditions in foreign countries. You may be assigned to a unit working for an oil company, protecting assets in a combat zone, to a combat operations unit working for a foreign government or to a training unit preparing foreign troops for combat and overseeing their combat performance. Whatever the assignment, it is by definition dangerous: during the Obama administration, more private military contractors working for the U.S. government died in Iraq and Afghanistan than all

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