If you get a job as a Mercenary and the money is good would you go for it? ( Archived) (9)

What - you have scruples???

Nope don't suffer from scruples,just a big step I can take.

Go for it if the money is good, i never regret doing it.

Couple buddies of mine gave it a go and got some contacts from a SF guy and ended up in Africa somewhere back in the late eighties. Deal was they supply their own rifle and equipment and get two grand a month.

They ended up on an oil rig here in Alberta making four times that and not have to worry about getting shot at. One ended up being a big deal in the directional drilling department so I suppose it worked out for him.

Another couple of guys joined the Foreign Legion. Went AWOL to do it. Less than a year later they turned up in London and surrendered to the Canadian Embassy. After a brief stint in jail they came back to the Airborne Regiment and told us all about how it went. Lack of discipline, lots of booze, more like a rabble than a cohesive unit and loyalty to whatever.

taking a soldier, no matter how well trained and placing him in a position where he has or receives no loyalty to anything save a paycheck is a recipe for disaster as it is the unit that has to be first, otherwise, individual hit men would be a far better buy than a former soldier. In a battle, it is the unit that sticks together that wins, not the one where everybody is in it for themselves.