Rebirth of England.

Chapter 771 PMC Fertile Soil
"We expect to increase the number of armed personnel by at least 5000 in the next five years, of which at least 70% will come from West Africa..."

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

After all, the Kolo Corps is the armed force of Kolo. Although they have a close relationship with the Protector Military Service Company, there are still big differences in name.

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

This was not the first time Graf Eaton met Barron. Before this, he was the captain of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Forest Regiment in England. The mascot goat of their regiment, "Derby XV", came from Chatsworth Manor Farm and was donated by Barron, Duke of Devonshire.

After leaving the British Army, Graf Eaton joined the Protectorate Military Services and eventually became the head of the company.

As for the previous company leader, he has already started enjoying his retirement life...

As mentioned before, with the addition of a group of 1500 armed personnel who have just been deployed to Iraq, the number of Protector Military Services employees in Iraq has now exceeded 9500, of which more than 8700 are armed personnel...

Currently, the employees of Protector Military Services include retired British military personnel, who make up the largest proportion, and personnel recruited in Colo, as well as 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.

Among the personnel sent to Iraq, the ratio of British retired soldiers, local soldiers from Kolo and retired soldiers from other countries is approximately 4:4:2.

However, in addition to Iraq, the proportion of local personnel among the security personnel sent by the Protector Military Service Company to other West African countries, including Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin, 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 capabilities 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 those of ordinary African countries' armies...

On the other hand, having more black faces involved in the security forces of companies affiliated to the Central and West African Group in other countries can help avoid being too sensitive and make it easier for the other party to accept them.

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

After all, now relatively speaking, due to the rapid economic development of Kolo, young people in Kolo have more choices besides joining the Protector Military Service Company or the Kolo Legion. 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 you serve in the Protector Military Service Company for a certain number of years, you will have the opportunity to settle down in Kolo with your family. This makes many young people flock to the offers of the Protector Military Service Company...

However, the Protector Military Services 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 militias, firing with AKs raised above their heads during battles, and just letting things take their course...

In fact, in Africa, especially in West Africa where coups and civil unrest often occur, there are such problems, and more consideration and investment are needed in security. However, it is also the fertile soil for the development of PMCs (military contractors) such as Protector Military Services.

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

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

But they have not participated in too many unrests in African countries. Currently, they only exist in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin around Colo. Moreover, they are relatively regular and do not have the indiscriminate killing and looting that many other mercenary organizations have...

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

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

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 ordinary small cities in Colo due to the development of the Protector Military Service Company.

Currently, there are only three areas in the entire Kolo that are equipped with air defense systems, namely the largest city Loti, the capital Britta, and the Munger base where the Protector Military Services Company is headquartered.

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

If it is an air defense system, Britain not only has the Rapier 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 wanted to buy the Longsword air defense system, it wouldn't be a big problem...

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

The main reason was the British Long Sword air defense system, which gave Barron a feeling that it was not very reliable... He remembered that in his previous life, the British had only equipped the much-hyped "Sky Sword" air defense system in 2020. Later, for some reason, it was deployed in Poland. As a result, its technical failure had not been resolved 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 the British, American Patriot, and Russian S-300, but the Hongqi 9 also successfully shot down a ballistic missile earlier this year.

(End of this chapter)