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Check into Maritime security the pay is good there's plenty of companies and it's better then sitting in the sandbox. There's a class near Virginia Beach it's $1100 for 5 days it's ran by all former seals it will give you all of the Maritime based experience to add to your resume on top of your 11b combat experience. They can help you out with all of the certificates that you need as well. It's a lot better than anything else right now last time I talked to one of the guys that I was in with he was only making around 60 thousand to go to the Stan with allied (formally black water) but whatever direction you head best of luck.
Holy shit. Unless that was for a short term contract for something specific, WOW.
When i went with my base pay, hazard/hardship/per diems at a set 60 hour week (regardless of what you actually worked, it was 60) I could make that in 2.5 months. This was for security attached to Task Force 51 in Afghanistan.
The problem for a while has been saturation of people putting in their time, getting combat experience and then saying fuck making $36k a year, I wanna make 6 figures. The larger hurdle is that there are no longer an unlimited amount of contracts, throwing an unlimited amount of dollars at an unlimited amount of slots like in the early/mid 2000s where there were so many openings that combat experience wasn't even a prerequisite as they couldn't fill billets fast enough.
I wouldn't have guessed the pay was that low; for 60k I wouldn't even leave my state let alone go to Afghanistan again. You're going to need to network. Who do you know that's on a contract, or has done what you want to do lately? Know anyone that is/knows a KO? Know anyone at contractors like SRA, SAIC, etc that can steer you in the direction of where to look?
Your main hurdle is going to be finding a slot to even get your foot in the door for as most of the guys over there will hop from one ending contract right to a newly mod'd/new contract while going to Dubai for 3 weeks in between. That's who you're up against for the most part.
I went on one of those foot in the door contracts back in 2013. $35k for 345 days plus a $10-15k one year bonus if I remember correctly. Don't really have anything positive to say about that experience haha.
That being said, most of the people I know that started contracting after they EAS'd all started with static contracts just so they could get their foot in the door and couldn't wait the 6-9 months or whatever to get a WPS contract when they were available.
Germans right though. If you know people that are on contracts or have a good standing you might be better off in some cases.
Other you may just have to suck it up and take what you can get until something better comes along.
Germans right though. If you know people that are on contracts or have a good standing you might be better off in some cases.
Other you may just have to suck it up and take what you can get until something better comes along.
Try here - http://www.soc-usa.com/careers/
and here - https://constellis.com/careers
here- https://www.garda.com/security-services
Dont leave home for less than 6 figures. You'll find your coworkers are the quality you would expect for bottom dollar (by and large). Stick to Direct DOS WPSS contracts, theres less chance of having your ass hung out to dry. Good luck
and here - https://constellis.com/careers
here- https://www.garda.com/security-services
Dont leave home for less than 6 figures. You'll find your coworkers are the quality you would expect for bottom dollar (by and large). Stick to Direct DOS WPSS contracts, theres less chance of having your ass hung out to dry. Good luck
