Blackwater Brand sent us a branded Plano field box, filled with items from their product line.
Found within was the following items:
All of these items are avaialble for purchase at blackwaterbrand.com
Tags: Blackwater
Blackwater Brand sent us a branded Plano field box, filled with items from their product line.
Found within was the following items:
All of these items are avaialble for purchase at blackwaterbrand.com
Tags: Blackwater
Why?
The only people who would wear this kind of thing are people who were employed by this company when it was still named Blackwater, and posers.
And let’s be real here, no one who is not a poser is going to order ‘Blackwater gear’ on the internet.
I don’t know – in the current political climate I could see people wearing this stuff for statement purposes.
I personally wouldn’t, no matter my personal positions on PMCs.
I also don’t get… I really thought they wanted to get away from that name/logo… hence all the name changes… weren’t they “Xe” for a while?
Maybe enough time has passed they figure no one cares anymore? Or the lawsuits are resolved, so it’s all good? Just seems odd to me…
I could be wrong but if I remember correctly SSD said these guys were different people that just bought the rights to the name and logos and such.
They aren’t affiliated with Academi/ Constellis Group. Totally different group.
This.
Besides, as Graves said in a previous post about this swag shop, it’s nice for current/former employees to be able to get some of the old branded gear.
I’ll be ordering at some point.
^This!
Licensed from EP
So those of us who worked there or attended training there are posers?
I’m curious if you know who runs/owns the shop.
I’ve sent them a few questions about their wares and haven’t gotten a response yet.
I know them. They are here in Norfolk.
I’ll shoot you both an email next time I’m heading down to Moyock through Norfolk. In case any body wants to grab a coffee.
Great!
I figure the people who actually worked there and feel the need to display the logo already have branded clothes from their time there.
Nothing lasts forever.
I concur. Maybe if logo was subdued, even mono chromatic embroidery. Then maybe one could get nostalgic and order something to commemorate his serviced.
Erik Prince still retains the rights to the Blackwater Brand.
This is a different group of folks that are trying to capitalize on the name and aura surrounding “Blackwater.”
There is no Aura with Blackwater. Tarnished POS brand.
As someone else stated,this has been leased through E. PRINCE for merchandise sales as people are very much still interested in the mystery surrounding the company. “Tarnished” is a matter of opinion. If your jealous just say so, we’ll send you a sticker and a blackwater brand pacifier. Cheers.
The brand isn’t tarnished anymore than the men and women who worked there. Hell, I used to work there and they were some damned fine folks.
I’d counter that Stefan S by pointing out that you’re the POS,
not the BW brand.
Thousands of missions run, not ONE dignitary hurt or killed that was protected by BW in two of the most dangerous Countries in the world at that time. Deadly Force used in less than 5% of those thousands of missions, a record neither the military nor anyone else operating at that time can match.
Go back to reading books by Jeremy Scahill or watching MSNBC.
It seems to be where you get your viewpoints from.
I got my viewpoints from DSS, USSS, USMS, DEA and number of other multi-letter agencies’ agents who wondered why their roles where being outsourced. Of course, a number of those agents jumped ship, and are now realizing that they would have been GS14 candidates long ago, with a solid .gov retirement plan.
But as one program mangler explained to me; “hey, nothing personal, it’s just business.”
Why were they outsourced? Mass. The government needed a whole lot of capability for an indeterminate amount of time, more than it had in-house capacity for. The government can turn contractors off, it can’t do that with Gov civilians.
smh
Is it just me or does their logo look like a cake with five candles?
I bought a shirt. I like the original logo instead of the Hong Kong copy of the shirts. And these are made of newer nicer material than the original ones from the ProShop.
Yeah, these are under license from E. Prince who still owns the copyright. He apparently leased it out to someone to make the shirts.
Is there any Custer-Battles shwag available? I mean, since we’re already shopping in that department.
Anybody else think Triple Canopy is totally missing out? Totally picking up chix at the club with my “Isn’t that a portable toilet company?” polo and bumper sticker.
Ohhhhh, the TC gear is all over the ProShop now. Hoodies, golf crap, shot glasses, week before last TC branded emergency LED lanterns.
Flogging a dead horse…
A very popular dead horse. Don’t confuse the market at large with the relatively small number of people who worked there. They’re not the same thing. They’ll make a pile of money just selling to militaria collectors, much less everyone else that will buy it.
So this is a company that only sells the defunct marketing stuff from another company that no longer exists?
Does anybody ever bother to read other comments before posting? I mean seriously…
Quality posting any time Blackwater is mentioned.
I’m misunderstood: this is marketing and capitalism at it’s best, regardless of the compan(ies) involved. It’s almost surreal. Think it through.
I also don’t go for branded stuff, even if it’s from a company still in existence. If you want me to advertise for you, you provide the material.
It’s not defunct if people buy it. Locally, that company employed a lot of people. Hell, it brought me to the Tidewater. I still see people wearing BW shirts or with BW stickers on their trucks.
It’s gear with a logo. Some people will buy it, some people won’t.
If you don’t like it or disagree with the message you think it sends, don’t buy it. That is why I don’t buy Viva Che shirts.
The sky is falling.
It’d be nice to think that former employees could get discounts and or some of the royalties. (I was never BW)
However, I do see ALOT of purchases from cowadooty kids, Fudds, Airshitters and poser tryhards.
Former employees get some of the royalties? Why? And how would one prove he had worked there? We turned in our badges when we left.
Nice. Should see these on show in DXB airport next. I miss the lodge, my CQD knife and my chalker sling. Oh and the bears chasing me pting around there at night.