Blackwater has been romanticized since the beginning of the war amongst almost everyone that has no idea what its role is/was intended to be. At the beginning it filled a retirement gap for retired SF personal and did its job well. Once supply and demand kicked in the quality of personal dropped and the BW leadership did a poor job of maintaining order within it ranks so the cowboy mentality manifested itself to the point that the BW personal believed and acted as if they had more authority than the military personal that they were supposed to be helping. BW was hiring former South African mercenaries looking for work since the Executive Outcomes aftermath which did not help the situation.

Blackwater may be gone but there are hundreds of other PMC's ready to assume its role; lets hope that they don't make the same mistakes.