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#29 Erik Prince - Inside The Rise and Fall of Blackwater

Shawn Ryan Show

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Afghanistan Air Support Missions With a Super Decano

I own the first super decano aircraft. It's a single engined, brazilian made turble prop air craft. And we had it kitted out for a jaso programm - so that they could find, fix and finish by themselves. We actually even did a study that we could have taken over every close air support mission over afghanistan with that aircraft. The whole programme would have paid for itself in fuel savings in seven months. But those are the kind of cost saving innovations that the military bureaucracy just cannot will not accept. That's the frustration why we have these perpetual wars, which never seem to and and no one is really put in charge.

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