DynCorp International is a U.S.-based private military contractor (PMC). The company, based in Irving, Texas, has provided "contract field teams" for the U.S. military in major theaters, such as Bosnia, Somalia, Angola, Haiti, Colombia, Kosovo and Kuwait. It is also active in the Chapare province of Bolivia, eradicating coca fields. DynCorp International also provides much of the security for Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai's presidential guard and training Afghanistan's and Iraq's fledgling police force. ... Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer flanked by private military contractors Private military contractors or private military companies (PMCs) are companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures for a military force; when involved with logistics, companies may be described more generally as defense contractors. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ... Kosovo and Metohia (Serbian: Косово и Метохија / Kosovo i Metohija , Albanian: Kosovë / Kosova) , in English most often called just Kosovo, is a province of Serbia. ... Chapare, also called The Chapare, is a rural province in the northern region of the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. ... Coca eradication is a strategy strongly promoted by the U.S. government as part of its War on Drugs to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are used in the manufacture of cocaine. ... Hamid Karzai, (Pushtu: حامد کرزي Dari: حامد کرزی) (born December 24, 1957) is the current and first democratically elected President of Afghanistan (since December 7, 2004). ...

It has been one of the federal government's top twenty-five contractors. In March 2003 Dyncorp was acquired by an even larger government contractor, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for approximately US$914 million. List of United States defense contractors. ... Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) NYSE: CSC is a software services company headquartered in El Segundo, California, USA. The company also has offshore development and support centers located at Hyderabad, Indore and Noida. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

At the time of acquisition, DynCorp had 26,000 employees and 95% of DynCorp's revenues came from U.S. government contracts. From 2004 to 2005 alone, the company's revenue have reached over $1.9 billion.

In December 2004, CSC announced that it had agreed to sell its DynCorp International and DynMarine units and selected DynCorp Technical Services contracts to private equity investment firm Veritas Capital for $850 million. The business units included in this sale represented approximately 37% of total DynCorp revenue of about US$2.525 billion at the time of the DynCorp acquisition by CSC. ← - 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in December • 30 Artie Shaw • 29 Julius Axelrod • 28 Jacques Dupuis • 28 Jerry Orbach • 28 Susan Sontag • 26 Reggie White • 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy • 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao • 23 Doug Ault • 19 Renata Tebaldi • 16...

Among the agencies it has worked with include the US Drug Enforcement Agency, United States Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Communications Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Department Of Defense and the Treasury Department among others. Since 1973, the DEA has enforced the drug laws in the United States. ... Justice Department redirects here. ... EPA redirects here. ... The FCCs official seal. ... The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the United States government agency that collects taxes and enforces the tax laws. ... The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department, a treasury, of the United States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government. ...

On October 15, 2003, three DynCorp employees were killed in a bombing in the Gaza Strip. They were serving as security guards for American diplomats, supplementing the Diplomatic Security Service. October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bureau of Diplomatic Security is the agency responsible for the safe conduct of foreign policy. ...

Controversy

DynCorp has had its share of controversy, as private military contractors such as Halliburton have had increasing roles in U.S. military operations overseas. This has led to the question of whether PMCs can be held to the same standards of accountability as members of the U.S. military. Halliburton Energy Services NYSE: HAL is a multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas. ...

Critics accuse DynCorp of involvement in conflicts in Bolivia, where they are said to earn money with the smuggling of cocaine, which turned out to be unfounded during an extensive investigation. This article is about the drug Cocaine. ...

In 1999, a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit was filed by a whistleblower against DynCorp employees stationed in Bosnia, which found that "a few employees and one supervisor from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior and were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and participating in other immoral acts." DynCorp fired the whilstleblower at first, but then eventually settled the case. The employees involved in the case were transferred out of the country. Some were later fired, although none were ever criminally prosecuted. 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... RICO or the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act is a United States law which provides for extended penalties for criminal acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. ... A whistleblower is an employee, former employee, or member of an organization who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power to take corrective action. ... Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...

According to Jeremy Scahill of The Nation magazine, in Afghanistan where DynCorp guards President Hamid Karzai, the company has a reputation for brutality and recklessness. DynCorp has even been rubuked by the U.S. State Department for its "agressive behavior" in interactions with European diplomats, NATO forces and journalists. A BBC News correspondent even witnessed one of the guards slapping an Afghan government minister. The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture. ... Hamid Karzai, (Pushtu: حامد کرزي Dari: حامد کرزی) (born December 24, 1957) is the current and first democratically elected President of Afghanistan (since December 7, 2004). ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... The NATO flag NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... The current BBC News logo BBC News and Current Affairs (sometimes abbreviated BBC NCA) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporations news gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ...

Early 2005 in Haiti, DynCorp bodyguards on the detail of interim President Boniface Alexandre beat at least two journalists trying to cover a presidential event. DynCorp has a history in Haiti where it trained the national police force after the original coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A bodyguard is a person who protects someone (known as their principal) from personal assault, kidnapping, assassination, loss of confidential information, or other threats. ... Boniface Alexandre (b. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, from 1994 to 1996, and again from 2001 to 2004. ...

The company is facing a major lawsuit by 10,000 Ecuadoreans who have been affected by toxic crop spraying. DynCorp is involved in many Latin American countries, like Colombia, as part of U.S. drug supply-side control strategies like Plan Colombia. National motto:El Ecuador ha sido, es y será País Amazónico (Spanish; Ecuador has been, is and shall be an Amazonic country) Official language Spanish Other languages Quechua and other Amerindian languages Capital Quito Largest City Guayaquil President Alfredo Palacio 2 Vice-President Alejandro Serrano Area  - Total  - % water... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Plan Colombia is an ambitious and controversial initiative aimed at resolving the ongoing, forty-year civil war in Colombia. ...

In September 2005, Brigadier General Karl Horst, deputy commander of the Third Infantry Division in charge of sercurity in Baghdad after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, said this of DynCorp and other security firms in Iraq: "These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force... They shoot people, and someone else has to deal with the aftermath. It happens all over the place." Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Dengue outbreak in Singapore • Fuel prices / Peak oil • Harriet Miers nomination and hearings • Hurricane Wilma • Irans nuclear program • Kashmir earthquake • London bombings... A Brigadier General, or one-star general, is the lowest rank of general officer in the United States and some other countries, ranking just above Colonel and just below Major General. ... Shoulder sleeve patch of the United States Army 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized). ... Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ... This article covers invasion specifics. ...

External links

• DynCorp International home page
• State Outsources Secret War, article from The Nation
• Outsourcing the Pentagon, information on Dyncorp Pentagon contracts and lobbying from Center for Public Integrity