Chapter 771 PMC Fertile Ground
“We expect to add at least 5,000 armed personnel in the next five years, of which at least 70% will come from West Africa…”
As The person in charge of the Protector Military Service Company, Graf Eaton, is naturally not the Kolo Legion, but the Protector Military Service Company headquartered at the Munger Base in the north of Kolo.
After all, the Koro Legion is the armed force of Koro. Although they have a close relationship with the Protector Military Service Company, they are still very different in name.
Just like protecting the West African Group's mines or corporate institutions in other countries, the personnel dispatched must not be in the name of the Colo Corps, but can only be the security guards of the Protector Military Service Company. People…
This is not the first time that Graf Eaton met Barron. Before that, he was the leader of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Forest regiment in England. The goat "Derby XV", the mascot of their regiment, was still From Chatsworth Manor Farm, donated by Barron, Duke of Devonshire.
After leaving the British Army, Graf Eaton joined the Protector Military Services Company and eventually succeeded him as the head of the company.
As for the previous company leaders, they have begun to enjoy their retirement life...
As mentioned before, plus a group of 1,500 armed personnel who have just been stationed in Iraq, the current protectors The number of employees of the Military Service Company in Iraq has exceeded 9,500, of which more than 8,700 are armed personnel...
At present, the employees of the Protector Military Service Company, in addition to the largest proportion of British Army retirees, and In addition to the personnel recruited locally in Kolo, there are also retired military personnel from some other Western countries - among which Eastern Europeans account for the highest proportion among "other" personnel. After all, they have relatively rich combat experience and require slightly lower remuneration. .
The personnel stationed in Iraq include British retired soldiers, local soldiers from Colo, and retired soldiers from other countries, accounting for about 4:4:2.
However, in addition to Iraq, security personnel such as Protector Military Services Company are stationed in other West African countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin to protect the interests of the West African Group. The proportion of local personnel will be greatly increased.
On the one hand, here, because the "regional matching system" does not need to take into account the combat capabilities of personnel like in Iraq, thereby reducing the proportion of some West African local armed personnel - even for protection The local personnel employed by the military service company are already the best selected ones. The quality of the personnel and their ability to obey orders are much higher than those of ordinary African armies...
On the other hand, more black faces are participating in the security forces of companies affiliated with the West and Central African Group in other countries. In this way, you can avoid being too sensitive and be easily accepted by the other party.
This is also the consideration. In the recent recruitment of Protector Military Service Company personnel in West Africa, it is not only limited to those within Kolo, but also recruits some from Burkina Faso and Ghana. High-quality military resources from other countries.
After all, relatively speaking, young people in Kolo's country now have more choices due to its rapid economic development besides joining the Protector Military Service Company or the Kolo Legion. In comparison, their treatment is only It's not as tempting as it was at first.
However, such treatment is very attractive to young people from countries including Ghana and Burkina Faso, and after serving for a certain number of years in the Protector Military Service Company, they still have the opportunity to take care of their families. Those who have settled in Kolo have made many young people eager for the offer from the Protector Military Service Company...
It’s just that the Protector Military Service Company screens these local soldiers very strictly, focusing on Their discipline.
After all, they don’t want their security personnel to be like those African armed forces who hold their AKs high above their heads and shoot in any random fighting mode...
In fact, in Africa, especially The development of West Africa, where coups and civil strife often occur, has such problems, and more consideration and investment in security are needed. But precisely because of this, Africa is also a fertile ground for the development of PMCs (military contractors) like Protector Military Services.
The relatively well-known ones include PMC organizations such as South African EO, Israeli IZO and future Russian Wagner. There are countless other large and small mercenary organizations. Some of the larger organizations can easily to subvert a country's political power.
Among them, Protector Military Services Company, relying on the financial support of the West African Group and the orders obtained in Iraq, can be regarded as the largest PMC in Africa.
But they have not participated in the unrest in too many African countries. Currently they only exist in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin around Kolo, and they are relatively formal. There is no indiscriminate killing and looting like many other mercenary organizations...
Therefore, many countries still hold a relatively positive attitude towards the Protector Military Service Company.
The area of the current Munger base has expanded more than ten times compared to the original one.
The facilities throughout the base are also more complete, including equipment warehouses, training grounds, barracks... There is even a dedicated radar station and a set of anti-aircraft missiles on the top of the mountain next to the base...
Even the small town near the Munger base is now much more prosperous than the ordinary small cities in Kolo due to the development of the Protector Military Service Company.
At present, only three areas in the entire Kolo have air defense systems, namely the largest city of Loti, the capital of Bulita, and the Munger base where the Protector Military Services Company headquarters is located.
The air defense system they deployed is the FD-2000 air defense system (the export version of Hongqi 9) purchased from China not long ago.
If it is an air defense system, Britain not only has the rapier air defense system of the 1970s and 1980s, but also the latest "Long Sword" air defense system.
To be honest, with the relationship between Barron and Colo and the British military, even the Long Sword air defense system will not be a big problem if you want to buy it...
But In the end, Barron chose the FD-2000 air defense system...
It was mainly the British Longsword air defense system, which gave Barron the feeling that it was not very reliable... He remembered that in his previous life, The much-hyped "Sky Sword" air defense system that Britain only equipped in 2020 was later deployed to Poland for some reasons. As a result, its technical fault was not solved for more than a month and it could not be used...
In comparison, China's air defense system can be said to be of high quality and low price...
Not only is its price much lower than the British, American Patriot, and Russian S-300, but the Red Flag 9 successfully shot down a ballistic missile earlier this year.
(End of this chapter)