Spec Ops Consulting
<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em;"><span dir="auto">Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" style="font-size: 0.8em; position: relative; width: 1391px; line-height: 1.5em;"><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); width: auto;" /><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; margin-top: -1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#mw-head" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" /><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#p-search" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" /></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group</b> (SOC-SMG) is a U.S. based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Private_Military_Corporations" title="Private Military Corporations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">private military company</a> employing 300 former US soldiers in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Iraq</a>. They provide services in force protection, personal security, convoy security operations, consulting and threat assessment, and training.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">They have also been recently hired to provide protection for the Iraqi polling sites in the US. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/10672922.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a></p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px;"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="font-size: 11px;"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#Overview" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#Expulsion_from_Namibia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Expulsion from Namibia</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#Clients" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Clients</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#Key_People" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Key People</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Consulting-Security_Management_Group#Contact_details" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Contact details</span></a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">Overview</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">SOC-SMG is one of five companies contracted by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Army_Corps_of_Engineers" title="Army Corps of Engineers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Army Corps of Engineers</a>' <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Captured_Enemy_Ammunition_program&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Captured Enemy Ammunition program (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Captured Enemy Ammunition program</a>. Over a half million tons of weapons in Saddam's storage facilities with made-in -labels from all around the world are expected to exist. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/177738_weapons14.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">SOC-SMG also prepares intelligence briefs in Iraq. In October 2004 they released a report that stated 2300 attacks had occurred in the thirty days leading up to September 28, 2004. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/601/601p15.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">They are a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Private_Security_Company_Association_of_Iraq" title="Private Security Company Association of Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Private Security Company Association of Iraq</a>.</p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Expulsion_from_Namibia">Expulsion from Namibia</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">SOC-SMG had set up a base in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Namibia" title="Namibia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Namibia</a> sometime in 2007 to recruit war veterans from the area to work in Iraq and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Afghanistan</a>. The company stated they had planned to recruit up to 4,000 Namibians with military experience to work as security guards in the Southwest Asia. On October 10th, 2007, the Namibian government announced they had ordered the closure of SOC-SMG's base and deported two US citizens from the company, chief of operations <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fredric_M.Piry" title="Fredric M. Piry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fredric Piry</a> and<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Grimes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Grimes (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Paul Grimes</a>, the company's representative in Namibia. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily-news/namibia-shuts-down-mercenary-firm,-deports-2-us-citizens-2007101310567/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a></p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Clients">Clients</span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tetra_Tech_Foster_Wheeler_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tetra Tech Foster Wheeler International (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tetra Tech Foster Wheeler International</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coalition_Provisional_Authority" title="Coalition Provisional Authority" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Department_of_Defense" title="U.S. Department of Defense" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Department of Defense</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Energy" title="Department of Energy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Department of Energy</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sandia_National_Laboratories" title="Sandia National Laboratories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sandia National Laboratories</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Boeing" title="Boeing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Boeing</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Chemical_Corporation_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Environmental Chemical Corporation International (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Environmental Chemical Corporation International</a> (ECCI)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Marine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hudson Marine (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hudson Marine</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nike" title="Nike" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nike</a>, Inc.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tesoro_Petroleum_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tesoro Petroleum Corporation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tesoro Petroleum Corporation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Toltest,Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toltest, Inc. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Toltest, Inc.</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Key_People">Key People</span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_M.Shiells&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert M. Shiells (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert M. Shiells</a>, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederic_M.Piry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frederic M. Piry (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Frederic M. Piry</a>, Chief Operating Officer</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Lumpkin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Lumpkin (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mark Lumpkin</a>, Director, Global Security and Training</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christy_L.Beach&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christy L. Beach (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Christy L. Beach</a>, Director, Special Government Programs</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_A_Bermudez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael A Bermudez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Michael A Bermudez</a>, Managing Director, HDSOC</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rosario_Ruiz-Velasco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rosario Ruiz-Velasco (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rosario Ruiz-Velasco</a>, Chief Financial Officer</li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_details">Contact details</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">2393 Heybourne Road
Minden, Nevada 89423
Phone: 866-369-9100 (toll free)
Phone: 775-783-9277
Fax: 775-783-9366
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