Combat experience

Saxon had been running Strike Six for Belltower Associates Incorporated for
a little over two years now, and Kano was the only man who had
stayed with him for all that time. Where Saxon had been recruited directly
from the British Army's Special Air Service, Kano had "liberated"
himself from a Namibian crime lord's war band after a Belltower battalion
had wiped out his former boss's drug-running network. The rest of
the team had similarly diverse origins, men and women gathered up from
national armies, police forces, criminal groups, all of them drawn in
by steady pay and high rates of danger money from the largest private army
in the world.

Saxon wasn't one to shy away from the word "mercenary." It was what he
was, what he did for a living; calling himself a "military contractor"
made it sound softer, somehow—and Ben Saxon liked the grit of the real
thing. It was the main reason he had walked into Belltower's offices on
the very same day the armed forces of His Majesty's Crown had told him
that his services were no longer required; the idea of a life on civvie
street just simply did not register with him. He liked it here in the thick; it
felt right.

- Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, Chapter 1 pg. 25-26