Mercenary Group To Airdrop 360s, Guitar Hero To US Troops [Xbox 360]

<p><img src="http://kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/07/blackwater.jpg" class="postimg left"/>You familiar with Blackwater Worldwide? They'll call themselves all kind of fancy names, but really, they're a mercenary group. Being an American mercenary group, a lot of their manpower comes straight from the US Army, making that the perfect place to recruit from. And what's a good way to recruit? By spreading good will. Which is spread quite easily when you plan stuff like this:<br /> <blockquote>Blackwater recruiter James Overton is working on packing a Microsoft Xbox video-game console, modem, TV projector and "Guitar Hero" video game into a kit that can be kicked out of a Blackwater cargo plane and dropped to troops in Afghanistan.</p></blockquote> <p> Ah, 21st century warfare.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/07/27/controversial-blackwater-worldwide-using-guitar-hero-xbox-360-recruiting-efforts">Controversial Blackwater Worldwide Using Guitar Hero, Xbox 360 in Recruiting Efforts</a> [GamePolitics]</p> <br style="clear:both;"/> <img alt="" style="border:0;height:1px;width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=e42a1e3018a85ccfc8a61357f9b9b8d8" height="1" width="1"/>
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