TheLeviathanX t1_j99oyyh wrote
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Sorry, PMC as in private military company? If so, that’s quite the career change!
flanneljack1 t1_j9aegl6 wrote
Yeah. It was kinda an accident. I took an office job for a white hat NGO stopping human trafficking on the recommendation of a college bro. But I kept getting projects in former Soviet states doing research, marketing, and very little anti-human trafficking work. After a few months I realized anti-human trafficking was just a smokescreen for a bunch of mercenaries trying to get their small PMC off the ground. I quickly left that company and became a tour guide to pay bills. Almost joined the navy but had a bad car accident and needed to switch career paths. 2011-13 was a wild couple years for me.
Edit: the PMC even sent me to the Hill to get money to “save girls” that was totally going to be used to buy airplane tickets to “security” projects. Thank goodness I was bad at my job.
CasimeowDstryrOfPeas t1_j9c9etk wrote
Ok this is by far the wildest story in this thread. Congratulations...?
flanneljack1 t1_j9clu6l wrote
My boss at the PMC was such a flim-flam man, he kept saying he was a helicopter pilot in Panama and that he ran guns and drugs for Noreaga and Ollie North. Except when I filled out paperwork for him I found out he was a logistics sergeant based in Montana. When I quit, he trying to help some guy buy a submarine base in Lithuania to convert into a commercial port, so he could run “security” for it.
CasimeowDstryrOfPeas t1_j9cn58t wrote
Bruh this episode of your life sounds like Narcos-meets-Monty Python 😵💫 I dunno how it keeps getting wilder with every comment but d a m n
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