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Originally Posted by jyl
OK, apparently if you are going to put security personell on the ships, better have more than a token.
Two British security guards jumped overboard from a ship that was being seized by pirates. They were rescued by friendlies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7754433.stm |
Col. Cooper had much to say about hired private security in his book
To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth. In summary, he pointed out that one simply cannot pay another man enough to die for him.
The whole idea behind this sort of private security is to present an intimidating enough deterrent that no one dare attack. If anyone has the nutsack to attack, the hired guns may actually provide some initial resistance, based on machismo alone. If they start to lose all bets are off. They are not giving up their lives for some one else's property, or even for some one else's life. They are not endowed with the sense of duty and patriotism that keeps soldiers in a fight.
Two guys on a big ship, armed with small arms, are laughable in the face of what these pirates bring to the table. These two Brits did exactly what can be expected of anyone in that situation. And they survived. To hell with the shipping company's financial loss.