April 4, 2012 1:43 PM PDT
You be careful out there, getting shot is the least of your worries.
If you are not working for a corporation, incorporated under US laws & with a "brick & mortar" headquarters building in the US (read " Blackwater" here) your are just begging for a one way ticket to oblivion.
Some of the things that well could happen to you are:
* You spend 3 month pay getting to your promised job & there is nothing there, no job, no friendly face
* They pay your way & when you get there they take your passport, tell you that you have to work off your passage & that the terms of your employment have changed, you will be doing scut work for reduced wages.
* You end up on an Iberian flagged ship, using Black Flag for dusting powder & having your meals & board deducted from your pay. - Modern ships touch port damn infrequently, tankers all but never.
* You actually do get to be a trigger puller at fair wages & actually do get to pull a trigger, which of course will touch off an international incident. - at which point your employer may elect to make your the sacrificial goat & let you stand trial in some godforsaken land. - The State Department has little patience for mercenaries that don't work for them (read "Balckwater"
No shortage of trigger pullers in this world - Besides Rangers, Green Berets, Marines, Seals & AF ParaRescue we have Belgian paratroopers, UK SAS, French Legionnaires, ROK Marines, - Need I go on?