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Special Operations Consulting (SOC-SMG) Inc.
Special Operations Consulting - Security Management Group
SOC-SMG, Inc. is a veteran owned, full service security company based in the United States of America with resources to operate worldwide. Most international operations are managed from our headquarters facility in Minden, NV. Mid East operations are conducted out of our Baghdad, Iraq office. Domestic security services are managed from our Walnut Creek, CA facility and delivered through regional offices located throughout the country.
All training that meets various government, corporate, and private military company standards is accomplished at our High Desert Special Operations Center in Hawthorne, NV. This advanced training center and various special operations curriculum meets or exceeds U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense standards for overseas PSD deployments.
Our core services include international force protection, consulting, security services, armed protection, threat management, investigation, training, and large-scale security operations. Additionally, we provide clients with comprehensive solutions to special problems. These include counter-terrorism, surveillance, electronic countermeasures, vulnerability assessments (VA), security effectiveness assessments (SEA), Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) specialties, covert video, overseas Special Operations protective teams, and intelligence, among others.
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Law360
April 18, 2013
Law360, Philadelphia (April 18, 2013, 7:17 PM EDT) -- A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday that it was premature to send to arbitration a lawsuit accusing security contractor SOC-SMG Inc. of refusing to pay its share of a defaulted $67 million loan it took out with its partner, Day & Zimmermann Group Inc., to fundÃâà...
Huffington Post
May 15, 2012
I noted in my book that in in September 2007, a Nevada-based private security firm called SOC-SMG started recruiting in Namibia. People there needed jobs, but when news spread about the risks they'd face in Iraq, there was public outcry, and in October Namibia kicked the company's officials out of theÃâà...
Huffington Post (blog)
May 13, 2010
Like any other profession or industry private military and security contracting has its own specialized vocabulary. Some of it is straightforward and comprehensible, but much of it is not. Take the phrase “Tier Operator”, for example. The term is casually tossed around by people in the industry but nobody everÃâà...
IRINnews.org
March 17, 2008
SOC-SMG claimed in an email correspondence to IRIN that it had been operating in Namibia with the approval of both the country's government and the ... "It was made clear during the various discussions that Namibians recruited by SOC-SMG would not be combatants, nor used in any combat situations,"Ãâà...
The Spy Who Billed Me (blog)
February 8, 2008
prince Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Department contract would be quietly renewed, their worst nightmare has hit: Blackwater is a campaign issue. In an ironic twist of politics, Erik Prince is now on the same side of the contractor issue asÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
January 7, 2008
Many ex-fighters, he recalls, were excited about the arrival of the Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group (SOC-SMG), an "international force protection" company with clients that include the US Army and Marine Corps. After all, this sparsely populated country in southwest AfricaÃâà...
NPR
October 12, 2007
An estimated 1,500 Ugandans work for an American security firm called Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group (SOC-SMG). The company is based in Minden, Nev., and was founded by two ex-Navy SEALs. Over the past two years, SOC-SMG has racked up nearly $30 million inÃâà...
Huffington Post (blog)
February 22, 2006
It took me a few moments to realize that the nice men from al Asad Air Base's private security force, SOC SMG, were taking me into custody. The slight but well-armed Ugandan guards who inspected my press ID at the entrance to Green Beans Coffee were unfailingly polite while denying me access.
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