Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says his six months in Afghanistan in 2018 as a State Department security contractor revealed how America’s wars had become “a corporate money-grab.” He clarified he never worked for Erik Prince’s Blackwater but for a hedge-fund-owned successor that inherited its State Department contracts. “They used guys like me with these backgrounds to meet the contract requirements so they could pay us bare minimum and walk away with the balance.”
Platner said his job mostly involved driving for the U.S. ambassador’s security team. “We were barely leaving the Green Zone… All I did was lift weights and play video games. I got huge and I played a lot of Far Cry,” he said.
He quit after six months and went home to farm oysters.
Constellis before they were acquired by Blackwater.
Didn’t Blackwater acquire Constellis in 2014, before Planter was working for them?
That may be the case. I am just repeating what the article indicated. I don’t know about the actual timeline.
Well, in that case the article is lying; be worked for Constellis after it merged with Blackwater.