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Has anyone worked armed security
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 3/31/20 at 11:13 pm
Overseas? Middle east? Thinking about doing it.
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Posted on 4/1/20 at 3:39 am to BFANLC
In what capacity?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 5:28 am to BFANLC
When I was in college, I worked as the gate keeper at a hospital doctors parking lot. No gun, but at night I did have a flashlight.
What do you need to know?
What do you need to know?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 6:20 am to BFANLC
Hope you don't need life insurance
Posted on 4/1/20 at 6:35 am to BFANLC
I would not take a job doing armed security in the Middle East unless it was somewhere like Qatar or Dubai. Even then I'd be very cautious. You would not only be a wildly foreign country where the rules are radically different but you'd an American in a region where only the Israelis like the Americans (The Saudis and Gulf Arabs tolerate us at best).
If you want to get into security as a career choice see about getting hired by an armored car company. Yeah, your first couple of years will likely be something dull like counting money in an office but there are opportunities for advancement.
My Nephew works for Loomis and they fly him all over the country to work certain delivery routes for them. Free housing, per diem for his food, and he is (I shite you not) making a hundred grand a year.
Which kind of makes me feel like a doof for telling him to skip the whole armored car thing and get a college degree instead.
If you want to get into security as a career choice see about getting hired by an armored car company. Yeah, your first couple of years will likely be something dull like counting money in an office but there are opportunities for advancement.
My Nephew works for Loomis and they fly him all over the country to work certain delivery routes for them. Free housing, per diem for his food, and he is (I shite you not) making a hundred grand a year.
Which kind of makes me feel like a doof for telling him to skip the whole armored car thing and get a college degree instead.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 6:38 am to BFANLC
Nope
Posted on 4/1/20 at 7:15 am to BFANLC
In college I worked the door at a couple of bars with the guns the good Lord gave me:
This post was edited on 4/1/20 at 7:17 am
Posted on 4/1/20 at 7:37 am to BFANLC
I would not be looking at doing any kind of work like that right now, man. The only thing I would consider is the French Foreign Legion. You can't be a pussy, though, and it will likely give you a ton of connections in Europe.
I worked with a PMC in a dusty place of the world (not the Middle East) and it's really, really shitty. If I could give younger me advice it would have been join the French Foreign Legion and go back and do more things like OPFOR/Training at the gun ranges that simulate combat and all that jazz.
It really fricking sucks when you're PMC/Pulling security, including Protective Services. It's hard, long and while every member has a lot of personal gear/equipment this isn't the Army or Marines.
If it goes bad, you are alone. No QRF, nothing.
Like I said: Don't be a pussy. Exercise. Lift as if someone's life depended on it. If you're considering it, join the French Foreign Legion -- just make sure you learn French.
If you don't have the dedication nor discipline to learn another language, stay home and just be an armed guard for an Armored Car Service or something similar but you're probably going to get rejected without prior service (police or military).
I worked with a PMC in a dusty place of the world (not the Middle East) and it's really, really shitty. If I could give younger me advice it would have been join the French Foreign Legion and go back and do more things like OPFOR/Training at the gun ranges that simulate combat and all that jazz.
It really fricking sucks when you're PMC/Pulling security, including Protective Services. It's hard, long and while every member has a lot of personal gear/equipment this isn't the Army or Marines.
If it goes bad, you are alone. No QRF, nothing.
Like I said: Don't be a pussy. Exercise. Lift as if someone's life depended on it. If you're considering it, join the French Foreign Legion -- just make sure you learn French.
If you don't have the dedication nor discipline to learn another language, stay home and just be an armed guard for an Armored Car Service or something similar but you're probably going to get rejected without prior service (police or military).
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