Chapter 771 PMC Fertile Soil

"We expect to increase the number of armed personnel by at least 5,000 in the next five years, of which at least 70% will come from West Africa..."

As the head of the Protector Military Service Company, Graf Eaton was not talking about the Kolo Corps, but the Protector Military Service Company headquartered at the Munger Base in the north of Kolo.

After all, the Kolo Corps, as the armed force of Kolo, has a deep relationship with the Protector Military Service Company, but in name, there is still a big difference.

Just like the personnel sent to protect the mines or corporate institutions of the West African Group in other countries, they certainly cannot be in the name of the Kolo Corps, but can only be the security personnel of the Protector Military Service Company...

This is not the first time that Graf Eaton has met Barron. Before this, he was the head of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Forest Regiment in England. At the beginning, their regiment's mascot goat "Derby XV" came from Chatsworth Manor Farm and was donated by Barron, Duke of Devonshire.

After leaving the British army, Graf Eaton joined the Protector Military Service Company and finally succeeded the position of the head of the company.

As for the previous company leaders, they have already started to enjoy their retirement life...

As mentioned before, with the 1,500 armed personnel just deployed to Iraq, the current number of employees of Protector Military Services in Iraq has exceeded 9,500, of which more than 8,700 are armed personnel...

In addition to the largest proportion of retired British military personnel and personnel recruited in Kolo, the current employees of Protector Military Services also include retired military personnel from other Western countries - among which Eastern Europeans account for the highest proportion of "other" personnel, after all, they are relatively experienced in combat and require slightly lower remuneration.

The proportion of British retired soldiers, Kolo local soldiers and retired soldiers from other countries deployed to Iraq is about 4:4:2.

However, in addition to Iraq, the proportion of local personnel among the security personnel deployed by Protector Military Services to other West African countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin, which are used to protect the interests of the West African Group, will be greatly increased.

On the one hand, here, because of the "regional matching system", there is no need to consider the combat capability of personnel like in Iraq, thus reducing the proportion of some local armed personnel in West Africa - even the local personnel employed by the Protector Military Service Company are already the best of the best, and their personnel quality and obedience to orders are far higher than the armies of ordinary African countries...

On the other hand, more black faces participating in the security forces of the companies under the Central and Western African Group in other countries can also be less sensitive and easily accepted by the other party.

For this reason, in the recent recruitment of personnel in West Africa by the Protector Military Service Company, it is not limited to Kolo, but also recruits some high-quality soldiers from countries such as Burkina Faso and Ghana.

After all, relatively speaking, young people in Kolo now have more choices besides joining the Protector Military Service Company or the Kolo Corps because of its rapid economic development. In comparison, their treatment is not as attractive as it was at the beginning.

However, such treatment is very attractive to young people from countries including Ghana and Burkina Faso. Moreover, if they serve in the Protector Military Service Company for a certain number of years, they will have the opportunity to settle down in Colo with their families. This makes many young people flock to the offer of the Protector Military Service Company...

It's just that the Protector Military Service Company selects these local soldiers very strictly, and focuses on their discipline.

After all, they don't want their security personnel to be like those African armed forces, holding AKs high above their heads and firing, and fighting in a casual way...

In fact, in Africa, especially in West Africa where coups and civil strife often occur, there are such problems. More consideration and investment should be made in security.

But it is precisely because of this that Africa is also a fertile soil for the development of PMCs (military contractors) like the Protector Military Service Company.

The more well-known ones include PMC organizations such as South Africa's EO, Israel's IZO, and Russia's Wagner in the future. The rest of the large and small mercenary organizations are countless, and some of the larger organizations can easily subvert a country's regime.

Among them, the Protector Military Service Company, with the financial support of the West African Group and the orders it received in Iraq, is one of the largest PMCs in Africa.

But they did not participate in the unrest in too many African countries. They currently only exist in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin around Kolo. Moreover, they are relatively formal and do not have the indiscriminate killing and looting that many other mercenary organizations have...

Therefore, many countries still have a positive attitude towards the Protector Military Service Company.

The current Munger base has expanded its area by more than ten times compared to the initial time.

The facilities of the entire base are also more complete, including equipment warehouses, training grounds, barracks... There is even a radar station and a set of anti-aircraft missiles on the top of the mountain next to the base...

Even the small town near the Munger base is now much more prosperous than the usual small cities in Kolo due to the development of the Protector Military Service Company.

Currently, only three areas in Kolo have air defense systems, namely the largest city Loti, the capital Britta, and the Munger base where the Protector Military Service Company is headquartered.

The air defense system they deployed is the FD-2000 air defense system (export version of the Hongqi 9) purchased from China not long ago.

If it is an air defense system, Britain not only has the Light Sword air defense system from the 1970s and 1980s, but also the latest "Long Sword" air defense system.

To be honest, with the relationship between Barron and Kolo and the British military, even if they want to buy the Long Sword air defense system, there will be no big problem...

But in the end, Barron still chose the FD-2000 air defense system...

The main reason is that the British Long Sword air defense system gives Barron a feeling that it is not very reliable... He remembers that in his previous life, the "Sky Sword" air defense system that Britain only equipped in 2020 was later deployed in Poland for some reason. As a result, its technical failure was not solved for more than a month and it could not be used...

In comparison, China's air defense system can be said to be good value for money...

Not only is its price much lower than that of Britain, even the American Patriot, and Russia's S-300, but the Hongqi 9 successfully shot down a ballistic missile earlier this year.