Barrie Rice is a former commando with the New Zealand Special Air Service. For the past 30 years, he’s been a mercenary and personal bodyguard all over the world.
Rice served in the Special Air Service for seven years. After leaving in 1995, Rice worked globally as a private security contractor, including roles with Blackwater in Iraq. He spent seven years in Iraq from 2003 to 2010. After Iraq, he spent time as a private contractor training military forces in South Sudan. Rice has also worked as a personal bodyguard, traveling all over the world to places such as Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Latin America.
Rice talks to Business Insider about the weapons, the ethics, the money, and the perks of being a mercenary. He also discusses his training, the risks, and his thoughts on how private military contractors are being used in global warfare.
He is the author of “We Were Blackwater: Life, Death and Madness in the Killing Fields of Iraq.”
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