Now he claims to earn his living as a private security contractor.
The private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide, for instance, has changed its name twice in the last three years.
Cerberus also explored an investment in Blackwater USA, the private security contractor since renamed Academi, but a deal never materialized.
September: Guards from the US private security contractor Blackwater allegedly open fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17.
Also that month, an armed private security contractor in Atlanta was able to board an elevator with Obama.
The Tory former defence minister Nicholas Soames is chairman of private security contractor Aegis, owned by a Swiss holding company and with subsidiaries in the British Virgin Islands.
DeVos's brother is Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a private security contractor notorious for its lucrative and deadly role in the Iraq war.
While not deployed, Sergeant Bellino worked overseas as a private security contractor, his lawyer said, doing what were effectively civilian deployments.
Here "Sharkey", a private security contractor who has spent much of the past six years in Iraq, describes his experiences and the changing nature of the industry.
The Navy says three dogs died and 46 others were in poor health after being neglected by a private security contractor in Chicago that had been hired to train the dogs to detect explosives.
Louis Berger hired an Indian subcontractor, which was a joint venture of two companies, BSC and C&C Construction, to handle the construction, and a South African private security contractor, ISS-Safenet, to provide security.
