He ordered Major Khalil and the DynCorp men to set up a good security perimeter.
After a week, the DynCorp men were told that the Uruzgan mission was complete.
The other DynCorp commander, Kelly, a former policeman from Arizona, also goateed, was driving another.
He said he'd picked up preferred stock in a company called Dyncorp at a terrific bargain price.
It was the litigation between Campbell and McKeon that shed light on the rich deal for DynCorp.
Hook, a former Army man and prison guard, had been hired by DynCorp just the month before.
This echoed what the DynCorp men had told me about their experience in Helmand the previous month.
An additional 50 Americans employed by DynCorp, an American contractor, live in the nearby town of Manta.
Most of the DynCorp men were Southerners or Midwesterners, and all but a couple were ex-military men.
DynCorp emerged as a major player in battlefield contracting, benefiting from the troubles faced by KBR and Blackwater.
They have three - they DynCorp and Triple Canopy that are also allowed to provide this what they called WPPS - Worldwide Protection Services.
He estimates the State Department will need up to five years to review invoices and demand repayment from DynCorp for unjustified expenses.
In Colombia, DynCorp helps implement the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia, to eradicate coca.
In late November defense contractor Dyncorp International dismissed its general counsel amid an investigation into possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Allen Barnes, one of the DynCorp medics, was standing guard nearby.
Sylvester Pocius, known as Sly, another goateed DynCorp contractor, had been grazed on the neck by a bullet that ricocheted off the bolt of his gun.
It has added personnel and is demanding refunds and other reconciliation for some past questionable payments made to DynCorp, said Elizabeth Verville, acting assistant secretary for the bureau.
Officials said the State Department is talking with security firms DynCorp International and Triple Canopy, which share the Iraq contract with Blackwater, about picking up Blackwater's duties.
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As we entered the nearest village, children gathered along the track waving and holding their hands out, and some of the DynCorp men tossed them gray plastic packages.
Dillon Read was Dillon Read, and nobody cared about Dyncorp.
Beyond the camp, at each point of the compass, Nepalese Gurkhas hired by DynCorp maintained sentry positions in foxholes and in sandbagged machine-gun nests on the roofs of trucks.
Officials said the State Department is talking with security firms DynCorp International and Triple Canopy, which share the Iraq contract with Blackwater, about picking up the duties handled by Blackwater.
F. contingent, including forty-odd contractors supplied by DynCorp, a Virginia-based private military company, which has a number of large U.S. government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world.
Within this perimeter, the team members pitched their tents, with the DynCorp men in one area and, in another area, the Afghan police, some of whom slept on cots in the backs of trucks.
Nearby, a DynCorp crew had opened full automatic fire on a group of gunmen who had moved from deeper in the orchard to the treeline on the opposite bank and were shooting at us.
DynCorp has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Blackwater USA in the contract to provide armed security for diplomats in Iraq following a string of security incidents involving Blackwater guards, including a September shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead.
DynCorp, which is now owned by private-equity player Cerberus Capital, decided to move into the same suburban office park as General Dynamics, near where historic Route 50 crosses the Capital Beltway to begin its long trek to the West Coast.
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From their offices atop the highest point in the county, SAIC executives can see the headquarters of number-four ranked military contractor General Dynamics, DynCorp (number nine), Booz Allen Hamilton (number 11), Computer Sciences (number 14) and ITT Defense (number 15).
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