So it’s perhaps not surprising that Prince advocates private contractors as part of a solution to not only countering the Ebola outbreak in West Africa but also combating Islamic State militants in Iraq. Prince, a 45-year-old former Navy SEAL, auto-parts company heir, and billionaire, has become the public and much maligned face of private military contractor use in America’s war on terror.
“Everything else was containerized: food, medicine, field hospitals, tents, water purification, generators, fuel - everything you’d need for a humanitarian disaster.” “We could carry 250 vehicles, couple of helicopters, couple of landing craft, and everything else - so that’s all your mobility equipment,” he told Foreign Policy on Thursday. Prince thinks that with a large supply vessel off the coast of Ebola-ravaged West Africa, private contractors like the ones formerly employed by Blackwater could quickly deliver crucial medical assistance where it’s needed - an old idea of his in a new context.
As he pitched his plan last week to fight Ebola with private contractors, Blackwater founder Erik Prince spoke alternately in hypotheticals and nostalgic past tense.
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