Inside the Deadly World of Mercenaries

move your gun mother Tommy we have capture buddy hello friends I'm Tommy G and today we're training with

mercenaries

welcome to the Redwater guys that's why I created Red Water. I wanted a place for us all to feel like a family. You know that many veterans when police leave when they retire you know that they lose that brother and that's what I wanted I wanted to build a hey hey do you like that give us the answers we want give us answers now let's talk about

mercenaries

weapons for hire Soldiers of fortune military contractors private these are some of the terms for guys who are paramilitary agents and if you need hired muscle our muscle these are the guys you call the mercenary

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and full of gray areas in In recent years, some groups that you What comes to mind when you think of mercenaries are the now-defunct American group Blackwater and Russian groups like the Wagner group, and these guys have reached all over the

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Some newsworthy mercenary exploits include the following in 2007, when Blackwater Convoy was involved in a highly controversial shootout in Iraq in 2021 when Colombian mercenaries were hired by a Miami-based security company to assassinate the president of Haiti. Juvenile moaz and for the last few years the Wagner group operated extensively in Libya to disrupt the flow of oil to the countries of the European Union and This is just the tip of the iceberg because of stories like this, it is easy to get a bad taste in your mouth when you hear about mercenaries, but some of these guys do really brave things and risk their lives for the greater good.

Today we cover the mercenary group. Redwater and his CEO Joey, these guys work hard with three letter agencies protecting our border and busting sex trafficking operations. They also provide executive protection to people ranging from presidents to pop stars. This is a place no YouTube channel has gone before. We dig in, spend 48 hours with these guys, and take you into their life. Everything you are about to see are recreations performed by trained professionals and are for entertainment purposes only. Let's dig deeper, as you can imagine that these mercenaries have very dangerous jobs as part of the The danger of their job is being on the target list of groups like cartels and motorcycle clubs, for this reason we have to keep their identity anonymous and we will blur their faces.

Two things before we get started on this video, first of all, thank you for last week's video, we had a fundraiser for Dr. Scott, over 100 people donated almost $26,000 that will really help his operation, let's call it and let's see what he has to tell you guys, hello, Dr. Scott, how are you? well how are you? Oh man, I'm so surprised at how well it's gone for me too. I'm excited because we really needed it, we keep making moves and we are so happy to have met you. This is amazing, absolutely amazing, I appreciate you. we'll stay in touch okay take care take care bye it's great that we can come together as a community and do things like this for people so that's very special also guys you should know that the new big dogs have to eat hoodies They arrived on the website They look incredibly fresh, great prints on the back and we have them in blue and we have them in Black Boom.

The mainstream media sweatshirt sold out in days, get this before they sell out too and now guys let's meet the mercenaries. What's going on bro, well we're here to see you man, how you doing bro, what's up bro, it's good to meet you, meet you, what we're getting into today, y'all have no idea buddy, you're going to go through something extreme. I'm telling you, I hope they're ready, you look a little Middle Eastern. I'm from the Middle East. Okay, so today we are against him. Yes, I'm on your team. What does it mean to be a mercenary?

A mercenary can be protecting people. He can be saved. people save children, what are your rates if I want to take someone out? You brought your guitar to a gunfight. What have you got there? Let's see, holy. Hey, I'm Joey X's army. I was a performer. My specialty is scops and human intelligence. I'm from Houston, Texas, but I was born in the United Arab Emirates. Oh, how are you? My name is gloomy. I was born here in the US and joined the Infantry and kept shooting somewhere, but now I'm here. What is your specialty? a shooter, yeah I kicked the ORS hey I'm creepy.

I am from Florida. I was in the military for 5 years. I was in a reconnaissance squadron. I specialize in medicine. I'm Breeze Navy Army. Retired for 24 years. I've been to Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Somalia. Pakistan in almost all parts of Afghanistan I was a leader of a sniper team. I am 54 years old and from a small town outside of Dallas. I am a ghost. I'm from Texas. I specialize in human recovery and executive protection. I served. in the army too, how are you doing? Maverick, I spent about 8 years in the military, infantry, air defense, licensed paramedic, countered edops in Afghanistan and pretty much everything in Iraq for the first exercise of the day.

Redwater is guiding us through escape and evasion. situation I am part of Team One, our job is to get away from the enemy. Team 2's job is to capture us in the real world, when you are captured that can lead to interrogation, torture and death, that's how it was, we are trying to escape. of enemy forces, what do we have to think about before beginning this attempt to stay alive as long as possible? In a real life situation, we would be waiting for an evacuation for someone to come pick us up. The goal is to try. and survive them, stay away from them as much as you can, come on guys, oh it's all about walking if you get tired and they catch you, game over, you still want some energy if you get tired, which direction should we go to? the right?

Let's get to it, have you guys ever had a race for your life before in Mexico? I was hiring for an agency I won't name. He was unarmed. He didn't have a rescue team. I was in a small town called Tanola in gu laara this is where the halisco cartel operates and I was in an area similar to this where the forests are the cartel thought I was an agent my job was to stay alive until a vehicle came and me He picked me up and took me to the airport and It was very similar to this, but imagine alone, unarmed, running through the forest in Mexico.

I thought I was going to die, man. Okay, so they're going to think we're going to go that route. You always want to think about how. They will think and you want to do the opposite. This broken vegetation, someone walked on that here also considering the area we're coming through this way, we just have to be aware that they could be on the edge of that field trying. to flank friend, this reminds me of Afghanistan, it was very mountainous like this, that's why it was so difficult for us to survive in Afghanistan because the tadan always had a point of advantage over the American soldiers, we were in valleys and they were on top. up they would just cut off your gun R because as soon as they see you you'll start F you want to pick it up yeah we can pick it up a bit multiple boot prints you want to go that direction and around I'll go this way and Yeah okay so here this looks cool , TRUE.

It just rained and all this is stained and surrender is almost certain that they torture exactly, so it is better to die fighting than to snitch. A lot of people end up dead because you don't fight to give in Boogie they are coming, get out of here don't move stop, drop your gun, drop your gun, son of a bitch, you got it, we have a runner, what's running, oh, he's a Mexican, oh Oh, he's there. We don't get captured like that, all it takes is a couple of seconds, one wrong move and you get caught and it's game over, so what's going through your head is we're being captured right now, so right now, in a real life scenario, if you were captured. by the enemy You probably would have pissed off your parents by now, probably your parents too because all you're thinking is that you're about to be tortured for hours, possibly days, with no one coming to save you and you're going to be done. probably dead, what are the most common types of torture that exist right now? hanging from your arms to a pipe, underwater of course, electrocution, how long do you hang from a pipe for 5 minutes, sometimes it can be hours, but you start to lose circulation in your arms and it is very very painful, I have hung before by the wrist and it is extremely painful, buddy, Tommy, we have to capture him, so when you hear about torture, you may wonder what laws and rules govern the behavior of mercenaries under international law.

Torture is undoubtedly illegal. But imagine this scenario, you are a mercenary who has just arrested a man running a sex trafficking operation. This trafficker knows where dozens of children are located but refuses to tell you if torturing this man saves the lives of dozens of children, is it then ethical? Mercenaries under international law, if captured, are not recognized as prisoners of war, which means that the Geneva Convention requires that a prisoner of war must be treated humanely, allowed to communicate with family members, and provided with food and adequate shelter. These measures do not apply to a mercenary if they are caught, they are at the mercy of the people who catch them, which means that if they fail in their mission, they will be in no man's land, which makes this a very, very dangerous job and The more I dug, the more I found a common trend.

Governments often hire mercenaries. Doing the dirty work seems too risky to them if the mission fails or something goes wrong the government that hired the mercenary group can deny responsibility for any wrongdoing recently this has happened countless times in Ukraine the Wagner group has carried out risky and

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operations and The Russian government can say it had nothing to do with it. In this interrogation training exercise we simulated what would happen if we were captured. Sorry guys, this normally works like the hood, I don't know if that's the case. We will work with you, but let us go.

Is it possible to bribe your way out of these situations? They think well, depending on the country they are in, depending on the country they are in, let's say they are in the southern jungles. America South America Africa everyone here in the United States sees bribery as something so evil when in reality in third world countries it is a way The first 24 hours, I would say, of being caught determine a lot keep your mouth shut and walk the Cavalry he's coming stop talking keep walking don't let him stop talking we would have previous codes before they captured us right the sky is blue it probably means hey in 5 minutes let's run when you're interrogating people what are you looking for , body language, yes, behavioral cues, inflections, changes in voice, eye movement, tics when talking to someone, if you constantly look up to the left and take a second before responding, you are accessing the parts creative parts of his brain, it means he's making it up right, so here's the On the stage, Arab and I are the prisoners and these are the interrogators.

What is called M26? I call it my shock, baby, when people don't want to give me answers, you hold it on a specific body part that they don't want. give answers, he hits them with this little bad boy and you'll get answers pretty quick, tell me, TR, sit down, listen, it's all good, it's all good, that's it, hey, hey, you gotta start giving us answers. I'm going to start torturing you guys, not to mention in about five minutes. I'm going to start ripping off their fingers and drowning them. They'll start telling us who they work for.

Let's stop torturing them. Now we work for ourselves, brother, we are working. with you give me some answers now we are youtube journalists what do you want from us what do you want to know listen mother do you want to get me no me no no no don't tell me who you work for I work for youtube I swear on my life please don't give me a rate on the shoulder tell me now I swear I'm telling you the truth listen listen we are journalists are you going to give us answers or not I gave you the answers I'm already giving us answers mother I already told you what we know call your mother give us answers now in about 5 seconds your lungs are going to start to collapse you're going to fill up with water and you're going to start losing your brain better talk to us hey hey put it in an answer that you like give us the answers we want give us the answers we want all of us what we want we are journalists I'm sorry but I'm an SP take it out Maverick put two in his head don't say anything dead he's dead next Tomy you're ding for the C you're going to be next and cut that wasn't even 1% of what a real scenario would be , TRUE?

No, it would make a lot more sense for us to take it very easy, guys, Maverick and I are professionals when it comes to this kind of thing and we knew their limits, but in a real life situation it would be much more intense and crazier. They would definitely give up on answers. How quickly do people usually break up in real life? In reality, it is very different. Depends on the person. The goal is as soonAs they enter, they see all the tools and start giving answers that you at least want to do. as much as possible for them and get the answers that they're after you, it all depends so I know we barely had an idea of ​​what this is really like, but what was your opinion on how to get a water bar?

Honestly, that sucks in a real life scenario you'd use. a gallon at least or a bucket you use a thicker material than a t-shirt t-shirt the water retains more now let's go to the field shoot some guns and learn some tactics come on baby woo I was going to go to Afghanistan, I threw them out at the last minute, but Is it really legitimate that they could potentially go to Afghanistan and rescue someone? It is something that you would do, yes, any country at this moment, there are only eight of us, there are a total of 30, there are more.

Also we don't advertise on the website for legal reasons the rest of our team right now most of them are on assignments how much does that cost if I get captured in Afghanistan and I want to hire a team of six of you? We sat down, talked to them and then agreed on a price, but that's how it usually goes, man, we're obviously not going to charge as much for a girl as we do for a politician who we know is bad and shouldn't. He hasn't been there, but he's still captured. That's a different story, you know, between $50 and $100,000, you're usually thinking in your early stages because it's going to take a few grand to get the ball rolling, so a deal can be anywhere in between. 200 to 500,000 on average, if it is a deep place like a big politician, it could cost a million and most of your work now, what is it like?

Most of his clients look like almost anyone, as long as they're not a criminal or a drug-dealing CEO. public figures actors musicians but there is a good part of what you do now on the border bus and traffickers. I can't comment on that, but I can say publicly that I worked on a contract at T1, an order that was affiliated with a three letter agency and we saved, 1500 children this was about two summers ago, what the heck is this T1000? I am a Richmond tactical dealer and I am also a phow farms dealer of brz's River Firearms, this is one of our personal models.

You won't see another one like this anywhere. This almost looks like a rapper or a poster guy. How about a badass cowboy? A tough cowboy. Wow, when you guys are operating. What are some of the essential items to pack? It varies depending on the issue. There is something. called undercover and overt on a protection detail, I'm going to be dressed like my client or like the area I'm in if I'm protecting, you know a rapper and everyone around me is wearing hoodies and baggy pants and tennis shoes, that It's what I'm going to use with the CEO.

I'm going to wear a button-down shirt, you know, nice pants, good shoes, you know, anything I can to blend in with my surroundings, whether that's more covert or overt. These plates show that I have magazines on display, you know, it all depends. I recently went to Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and then New York with this client I work for. Okay, he's a rapper. His father is a very high-profile fashion mobile. Him, have you ever been in a situation where you thought you were going to die? Yeah, actually, that's why I got the Purple Heart. They exploited me.

My right knee was completely blown off. I took a piece of shrap under my arm and cut myself. The bicep came out of the top of my shoulder and I caught a piece on my head. Where was Afghanistan? That's why I created Red Water. I wanted a place for us all to feel like a family. You meet a lot of veterans when they arrive. When they retire, you know they lose that Brotherhood and that's what I wanted. I wanted to build a Brotherhood. Do you think mercenaries have a good or bad R? Movies make mercenaries look bad.

I think, in my opinion, because they make it seem like there's a way. more than that man, we all have families, we all have lives, you know, we love, we bleed, we laugh, you know, as corny as it may seem, but we are human at the end of the day, the people in the places where you operate too have families and they laugh , so from my perspective it's the same perspective as the guy who shoots, it's him or me, man, whoever acts first is the one who stays alive and that's how it is, man. The war is not fair.

Joey said that war is not fair and he is right throughout the centuries, people have used mercenaries to try to tilt the battlefield in their favor. The earliest evidence of using mercenaries to help win wars dates back to the time of the Egyptians when you read history. You will read about the Swiss, French and English mercenaries spread throughout the wars of the Middle Ages who fought for kings and dukes and, in fact, for the United States to gain independence from the British Empire during the Revolutionary War, we had to defeat some 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians. that the British hired to try to crush us when I imagine how terrifying and dangerous it must be to be at war, whether with a sword in the Middle Ages or with the bombs and high-powered weapons of today, I am amazed that people are willing to become mercenaries knowing that if I ever get trapped in a dangerous place, Redwater will launch a mission to come find me and could be my only hope for survival.

It makes me appreciate that these men are brave enough to do what they do and People remember that, like in any profession, there are good and bad people, whether we are talking about priests, doctors, businessmen or mercenaries, there are good and bad people in all professions. Well, let's shoot, let's do it, man, hey, three cheers for Hillary Clinton, that's how we do it on baby. Has anyone ever run out of ammo in a combat situation? Yes, fortunately, a helicopter arrived and took out the targets we were shooting at. We raided a high value target's house before hitting the house we had.

The gunners fired Loom bullets because it was like 2:00 in the morning, they shot Loom bullets over the house before we hit it and the projectiles from the Loom bullets the guy had marijuana fields around his house, well, the shells landed in the marijuana fields and set it on fire after we pulled it out and recovered it and we were waiting to be picked up we were all sitting next to the field and all the smoke from the field we were all piled up right behind where all the smoke was coming in and We got on the radio like, hey, you might want to wake up the cooks, man, we're going to get a little hungry, how long was it from when you ran out of ammo to when I got a result of about 10 minutes, okay, That's good, so what makes your job worthwhile?

Like, I'm going to do my duty and do something dangerous and be a mercenary. What makes you say you're going to do that by protecting? other people is something that I always wanted to do as a kid, uh, family, friends and all that, so just to extend that after my military service and be able to do it as a career is fulfilling for me, I think we're all doing it. This is because we want to help good people. Where is this green patch? bad people my message is, you know, yeah, it's cool to shoot guns and stuff like that, but we need to unite in this country right now, we're very divided, you're part of the family.

Now brother, thanks for coming, Tommy, I can't rescue you if you get stuck in some bad place, but these guys, can we call each other, contact Redwater anywhere, anytime. Everything is ready for the next exercise. We simulate what would happen if I were to do it. blown up by an improvised explosive device that's how you approach something like this there's a shady Lebanese guy who's a known terrorist just watch out watch out we have to accomplish this mission we have to go oh doctor, I'm not getting my leg back Oh Missing leg, okay, die, so no, because right now I'm putting this tourit putting this tourit on you very quickly, this is going to cut off the blood flow to your entire leg, well, everything below the 315, you guys have to give me here.

Alright, we're going to mark that to make sure we know when the tourniquet was put on and now we're going to finish the blood sweep, we're going to check this leg up here, nothing, here we go. I'm going to check your grunt, oh God, nothing, okay, let's check it for a little blood. Let me see, okay, so a chest seal is anything other than by. You can use this glove as a chest seal right here, so I. I'm just going to hit that on the wound and that will create that pressure inside your chest. That's when the chest gets like this, which means it's a paradoxical movement and there's penetration into the chest wall so you have to put something on top of it to keep the Press the same so now I'm going to go into circulation so what What I'm going to do is check his pulse to make sure he has a pulse and depending on what type of pulse it is if it's you. knowing strong, if it's weak, if it's fast, will determine what type of treatments I can give you now, we're going to get into our circulation, but I'm going to give you the IV to get vual access and then, I'm going to move on to my next secondary evaluation, that would boost pain management, here you go, baby, put it in his hand.

I'll tape it to your tan. If I had someone else, I would have him back up or I would sit him against some type of object. I could even lift it like this. You can die. I can still treat him with whatever he needs. I can still access all of this. What I am going to do? es, I'm going to pull him back a little bit and he's going to swing and that's going to lock his knees and that's going to allow me to get him on his feet, so look at this, there you go, from here I can transition into whatever type of grip I want.

I can pick them up, I can move them in a real life scenario, that would take a lot more time and there would be a lot more depth, like I would actually have to, you know, put a seal on his chest and you know, monitor to see. If I have to burp every couple of minutes It hurts a little at first, yeah, yeah buddy, sorry about the bomb, why? Alo akar. I didn't want you to have to go through the pain, I just wanted to thank you. Traa real Lane is much deeper, obviously it will take much longer than 5 minutes, there is obviously much more at stake, how did the walkthrough feel hurt?

I was looking at you like there was no way you would have it too. It was almost like an impossible pain, like it would take it away from me. I thought, oh no, there's no way the people who say mercenaries are bad are going to get rid of them, what do you say who you're going to call when huh? gang members are starting to take over your neighborhoods and the cops are already being defunded, so keep thinking about those guys and they're already working too hard, they're already working too hard, who's going to come and save them, okay, I guarantee we have a faster response. longer than they ever will and we understand that there are ethical issues involved with having private militaries operating in the continental United States, but that is also where we need to redefine ourselves differently, we are not running high risk operations like we would in Iraq as a PMC we would assist police officers as security officers, not in combat operations as soldiers.

We love doing what we did with you today training people, so if civilians want to come train with bread and water, please contact our website. I would love to teach a class and travel, you know, teach a class and teach them everything for the last phase of the training. We're going to go out on the town and see what it's like if you're a celebrity or a rock star with executive protection, so let's hit the streets next exercise. We have an Arab posing as a prince from Saudi Arabia visiting the United States on business. We take him through a crowded food court in a Houston mall and let Redwater show us his skills. let's see what happens today we are going to protect our client Prince Lebanese we are going to show you our protocol when accompanying celebrities, CEOs, clients every time they come to the city what is the protocol from A to Z with how many men do we have In this case , three with me and then three that we can't see that are blending together, yeah, exactly, and that's the way we normally do it because we always want to cover ourselves if something happens, okay, so what are we currently looking for?

Obviously, we always go. To attract customer attention you want to see people who usually have extra clothing that doesn't suit the surrounding climate, like a thick jacket or something, it's usually a sign that something is wrong and maybe they are carrying a gun or something, especially if the client has a high threat, do you have a high threat level right now? Habibi I in Arabic in Texas, bro, everyone around me thinks I'm probably wearing Vents and you'll notice there's an agent on each side, one behind. you and then you always look to the left looking up to see if they tell me that in the United States you have a good hamburger, very good, can we try a good American hamburger, excellent hamburgers, your majesty, I will be happy to buy you a hamburger, are you nervous right now?

No, I'm not nervous.I have a good security team. Maximum security throughout the world. What are you in the mood for right now? Sir, are you hungry or would you like to go shopping? I would like to buy maybe a Louis Vuitton bag for my wife. have agents at the top remember I said there are three that are undercover because we need guys that have the right eagle eye, don't commit Haram, close your eyes, close your eyes, no, but my wife wears this under her hijab, really oh no? Don't you dare to think of my wife like that?

Hey, get this guy out of here, we can't have him here sir, go away, hey, hey, hey, come on sir, we've got you, that's exactly how it would normally happen with customers. that you would give them one or two warnings not to leave, you would have the second agent behind grab them and take them away Prince, sorry for my behavior, I apologize in the food areas, for some reason, people get attacked a lot because You never know who will sit down to eat. Are you primarily looking for men or women for everything? Generally rival countries send women.

What would you like to eat? Mister. I want hamburger. American Hamburg. The restaurant is good, very good, what's your name? My name, Abdullah Muhammad Salis. Nice to meet you in my country. We shake hands. She wants to leave a drink. It's a pleasure to meet you. What are you doing? Here I am visiting the United States for the first time I am exploring the culture, they tell me this is the number one chicken in the United States. I think it's true, we have to get you out of here safely. Come on Kelsey, nice to meet you, Kelsey, first time.

I'm trying the chicken sandwich they tell me the number one in ama is Chick-fil-A the number one is good do you like spicy, not regular spicy? I'll try what you think is best, but it's not a great American drink, it's an Arnold Palmer, it's a mix of lemonade and Arnold bomber tea I'm not a bomber n arold Palmer oh this is your name yes Jason my brother yes sir oh I love America everyone in America is like that right now we tried the American bomber oh America is very good Bal America is very famous for fast food.

This is the step that makes you obese and we proudly serve it to you as a guest because we spend too much time here. It's probably best to leave the area because we're attracting too much attention. there is a higher chance of him being attacked or harassed at that time, go move your place, you are wandering around like a lost goat, we must catch you, there is a beautiful Natina woman behind me, no, that is Haram, you have four wives, let's keep it moving, four wives in the middle. and This, but all over the world I can have as many as I want.

I am a no, that is Haram, sir. Let's get him out of here. We had a lot of stairs in the food court and Joey received information that our men were in the mall. Looking for the prince to get him out, so he made the call to get the client out of him, get the main guy out, let's get out of here, would you like a fried American waffle? OMG this is delicious, excuse me, excuse me EXC, thank you Habibi, this post, right? This is when people usually get attacked so at this point I will move forward with the other agent look to our left look to our right thank you how do you think the mission went well?

I didn't notice the other three guys in the mall at all. They were following us, right? I'm not looking for anything. I have my security team, they do the job. I became friends with Jason and he gave me the bomber. We are trying an American chicken burger here. I don't know why they are calling. sandwich, but we'll see how he tastes he. Oh wow, juicy. Every meal in America is like this. There is so much oil. I think it was great. I got them out safely and efficiently. It was a success. It was a pleasure doing your business.

My pleasure, brother. The red water will always be here for you sir, any time you want, we will take it from here. Okay, thank you very much, thank you, Tommy, brother, see you. I really don't think we needed those guys. I mean, that's what he really did. help I mean w w wo wo w w w wo W no h h no come on friends, I hope you enjoyed this episode, want to watch another one here, want to subscribe here, see you next week.