[Shatterpunk?] Corporate Armies are a reality

[OverNinja]

Contractor's Creed

I am a US contractor. I look out for myself, the operators to my left and right, and no one else.
I will always take advantage of the fact that I can finally tell military officers to pound sand,
  and will do so at every opportunity.
I am my country's scapegoat, the "plausible deniability" warrior, and I love it.
Less than $700 dollars a day is unacceptable.
I am trained to eat things that would make a billy goat puke,
  but will refuse anything less than 60 dollars per diem because I am greedy.
I care not for ribbons and awards for valor.
I do this job for the opportunity to kill the enemies of my country,
  and to finally get that boat I've always wanted.
I will be in better shape than 99% of the active duty personnel,
  although this is not hard.
I will equip myself with the latest high speed gear,
  and will trick out my M4 until it weighs more than 24 lbs, not because it works better,
  but because it look cool in the photographs.
I will carry more weapons, ammunition, and implements of death on my person than
  an infantry fire team, and when engaged I will lay waste to everything around me.
In any combat zone, I will always locate the swimming pool, beer, and women, because I can.
I will deploy on my terms. and if it ever gets too stupid,
I will simply find another company that pays me more.

EDIT: fixed typos

[Krensky]

So, what you're say is...

All of my players characters are US private military contractors whether they say so or not? 

 

[Aragathor]

I will be in better shape than 99% of the active duty personnel,
  although this is not hard.
I will equip myself with the latest high speed gear,
  and will trick out my M4 until it weighs more than 24 lbs, not because it works better,
  but because it look cool in the photographs.
I will carry more weapons, ammunition, and implement of death on my person than
  an infantry fire team, and when engaged I will lay waste to everything around me.

It sounds funny, right?
Contractors are lean, mean, killing machines, right?
They have to be, because when they're out there they have almost no support.
No buddies in IFV's armed with chainguns and mg's, no attack heli's, nothing save for an armored car and maybe a light recon heli.
A single infantryman with a radio can call in artillery support to destroy a fortified position, a single "mike target" and he can check for survivors. A single contractor has to retreat in this situation.

A few years ago the US Army made a crazy test, they gathered a group of FPP gamers gave them the best equipment available and sent them against Rangers armed with M4s.
The geeks have beaten the rangers hands down, proving that in a modern conflict the only thing that counts is your gear.

[arkham618]

Blackwater is not so much corporate as it is an additional political agenda hidden behind a corporation.

More than anything, it strikes me as the globalist equivalent of the Weimar-era Freikorp. Sturmabteilung 2.0, if you like.