Am I the only one disturbed by our media referring to organizations like Blackwater as "security contractors"? I mean, they are solely hired because the US needs more soldiers than they have. They are privately hired soldiers.
From Webster's:
Mercenary: noun
one that serves merely for wages: especially : a soldier hired into foreign service
Political correctness doesn't quite cover swapping mercenary for "security contractor".
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/02/blackwater.html