It will take another half a month for the gunboat to arrive, but now Sean is going to be busy.

It's useless to have a gunboat, you need a professional who can drive a gunboat!

The navy is a high-tech branch of the armed forces, and it is not something that anyone can learn by getting started.

If nothing else, it's just a cannon.

Artillery is not something that just anyone can shoot accurately.

In addition, there are many problems encountered during sea voyages, including how to locate the target ship and so on.

Sean has to recruit a group of people from the military to come back, not to mention, he has to get a Keeling-class destroyer in the back.

The Keeling destroyer has a full complement of more than 300 people, and this Sean will definitely not raise so many people, but, removing the marines and so on, the basic control team members, maintenance team members, and fire team members, these still need to be there.

If you want to give full play to the combat effectiveness of such a large battleship, you must have a team of dozens of people.

And Sean is completely ignorant about how to form such a sea force, so the first thing Sean has to do is find a former destroyer captain commander.

In the U.S. military, the commander of the destroyer is a lieutenant commander.

Sean, who is on active duty, doesn't have to think about it, but he has been a captain, and when he retires, he is at least a colonel or a brigadier general, and some of them have simply been promoted to the rank of rear admiral.

And it will be older.

Sean was introduced to a major general named Layton Steven.

Leyton Steven, most recently retired as Rear Admiral and Commander of the Task Force at the Guantánamo Military Base.

The US military has established regular troops for more than 200 years, and through practice, it has formed a relatively mature system for the retirement of soldiers.

It is stipulated that a major officer may continue to serve in this rank until he has completed 24 years of military service.

Colonels, brigadier generals, and major generals, who have not been promoted within 5 years from the date of receiving their official rank, must be discharged from active duty within 30 days after the completion of the 5th anniversary.

Therefore, the retirement age of a US officer is not necessarily, it may be 60 years old, or it may be in his 50s or 50s, depending on how early or late he is promoted.

Leighton Stevenin is 62 years old, has just been retired for more than a year, and his health is still very healthy.

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Georgia, which is a state in the southern part of the United States, is halfway between South Carolina and Florida and is bordered by the sea to the east.

With a population of more than 8 million, the economy is relatively developed, and it is a subtropical humid climate, due to the warm water ocean close to the Gulf of Mexico, the climate is pleasant all year round, and the temperature is between 27 °C ~ 35 °C in summer.

It is a very popular retirement state in the United States, and Layton Stevens bought a farm here after his retirement.

Well, although he doesn't feel old.

Before Sean came, someone had greeted Layton Steven, and the old man didn't take it too far, and took the initiative to pick up Sean outside the farm.

The farm is not very large, only about 300 acres, and Leighton Stevenin is not prepared to expect much money from the crops grown on the farm, the whole farm is more like a large resort.

There is a large villa built on a small plateau in the west of the farm, and there is a small river next to the villa, which runs through the whole farm, and some cattle and cattle are scattered in the farm, and the whole farm looks unusually leisurely.

After taking Sean on a tour of his villa, the two of them chose two horses in the stables and chatted while walking around the farmstead on the horses.

They are all from military backgrounds, and Sean listened patiently to the old man about his eventful years in the army.

It can be seen that the old man is not convinced of old age, and he doesn't know whether he is reluctant to live in the army, or unwilling to lose his rights and status.

After riding a horse and wandering around the manor for more than half an hour, the old man was a little tired, and the two returned to the manor villa.

After serving coffee and drinking for a while, Sean pulled the topic back to the purpose of this visit.

"You know, I have an X security services company under my name, and my current business is not only in New Jersey, but mainly in Colombia, and I think you are not yet of retirement age, and I would like to ask you to come out and help." Sean picks the point.

"Security company, Sean, let me call you that, how do you position this security company?" Layton Stevens knew that Sean was coming, so he deliberately found a lot of information about Sean.

Knowing that this guy started as a gangster, he knew that a few months ago, Sean was in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, and slaughtered a mafia family in an armored car.

A ruthless and cunning guy like a fox!

It's just that unlike the traditional mafia, he does not spread drugs, does not extort money, does not participate in those traditional illegal businesses, but concentrates his power on the security company, controls the mafia family through the security company, and controls the local gangs through the mafia.

The flat management method is very novel and creative.

In the past two years, through legal and illegal means, he has accumulated a large amount of money, and now his net worth is more than 300 million, making him the richest man in the United States who has started from scratch and has risen the fastest in recent years.

Of course, the Rockefeller family name also provides a lot of hidden protection in it, so there is no need to emphasize it.

The old man can see that although X security is the one who has been losing money in Sean's entire system, it is very important!

"As for the security company, my assumption is that in other states in the country, except in New Jersey, it will only take on the bodyguard business of some wealthy people and the short-term security business in public places such as meeting places." Sean sorted out his thoughts a little and then talked about his plan.

"I don't expect to make much money, it's mainly about maintaining reputation and relationships."

"The main business, I am going to put abroad."

"First: to provide security services for other countries and regions, such as Cartagena, Colombia now."

"Second: provide security services for some overseas companies, escort, rescue, strike."

"Thirdly, and what I value the most, I hope to reach some agreement with the military."

"Oh, what an agreement." Layton Stevenin was immediately interested, and the first two he could help, but not the most important.

"Military Operations Outsourcing Agreement." Sean said with a smile, speaking of this, his big white teeth seemed to be shining.

"What is a military operations outsourcing agreement?" Layton Stevenne was a little stunned, and a little unsure of what he thought.

"For example, the U.S. military needs to carry out some military operations in a certain area, but if it appears as the U.S. military, it is not very good, and it will cause some opposition and criticism from other countries in the world. Sean talked about the concept of military outsourcing.

(Blackwater was founded in '97, and there was no such concept at this time.) ）

"You're this, you're here, it's a bit interesting, let's talk about it specifically." Layton Steven's light blue eyes lit up instantly, and he smelled money and power.