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seektravelinfo wrote:Was he the guy that was trying to launch a business in brokering private contractor jobs overseas?
Bragged often about women and money?
Projected an aura of shadiness and desperation?
That guy?
Boy oh boy the outcome of his story is hilarious. You should shop this to Ben Stiller for a movie. A laugh out loud comedy about a “tough guy” poseur living the life of the little prison-bitch in a Philippine family compound.
ReptilianKittenEater wrote:I wonder if these guys understand the using goes both ways.
Kurt wrote: He ratted out Swain to either the Indonesian Government or the Thai Government, I forget which...so that was shitty.
ROB wrote:Kurt wrote: He ratted out Swain to either the Indonesian Government or the Thai Government, I forget which...so that was shitty.
Would have thought Dave would bash their heads together if that were the case.
gnaruki wrote:Didn't jitw go broke like a decade ago with whatever his concern was at the time? Seems like a read something along the lines of "My partners screwed me, my life savings is wiped out".
LOL thank fück it was "officials". Screw over a working girl, odds are your mom won't be the one needing medical attention.Darcy wrote:We had issues in Baku for this, didn't even have to knock a girl up. Her word against yours. Officials took the lady's word. Engineer buddy got seriously rolled, but heh, you play the game.
Kurt wrote:ROB wrote:Kurt wrote: He ratted out Swain to either the Indonesian Government or the Thai Government, I forget which...so that was shitty.
Would have thought Dave would bash their heads together if that were the case.
Why would Swains head need to be bashed?
Dont think it would have worked because of the height difference between them.
I work for a State Dept. affiliate doing logistical moves in N. Iraq
(Kurdistan). A few years ago we had a hot fill slot that I offered to
Price’s brother (solid operator). His brother turned it down but knew we needed a body ASAP and mentioned Mr. Price was doing some DynCorp gig in the UAE. Because he was the brother of a man we all knew and respected he got he slot. That was the ONLY reason he was brought on.
He worked for us for a couple years doing convoy duty and it was during this time he started the DVM thing. All his posts about “his” trucks, “his” crew and “his” guns were the trucks, crews and guns my boss owned. Not James’ but the company’s assets.
We tolerated his bullshit about everything being “his” for quite some time- but we’d get emails and other comms about kit that he had acquired belonging to someone else and them wanting their shit back, money owed etc. but since it didn’t concern us directly it was passed off as butthurt common to guys who have lost track of gear and to be honest I really didn’t care enough to look further into it.
His back door dealings were ferreted out and his employment was terminated. We were tasked with documenting and cataloging his room in the villa. Part of what we found was a shit ton of kit belonging to other expats (we are talking THOUSANDS of dollars of shit), all kinds of personal property that wasn’t his(including that of his team members) as well as company property which to this day he is still trying to claim is his. Keep in mind this is despite other guys not only claiming it but putting serial numbers and other identifiers to the kit he stole. (Some dudes have gotten their shit back- others have unfortunately gotten shafted as their kit disappeared into the black hole that is this guy).
The guy is flat out fucking shady and I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could toss him. He’s a thief, steals from expats on his own team (remember the Afghan commando patches there James?), jacks kit other guys are depending on, jacks up and rats on his own team and is overadisll a dishonorable and loyal individual.
He never fired a single shot in anger and all his “operations” were in Kurdistan during the timeframe where the biggest threat was a drunken Kurd crossing the centerline of the road. He was intimating he was “out amongst em” on runs that we did carrying nothing more than a sidearm (and that because it was expected- not because we thought we’d have need of it).
You guys bought into the “International Man of Mystery” Mr. Price has constructed around himself. He isn’t Archer, never was Archer and never will be Archer.
James will know damn well what I am referring to in that last post by the way.
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