Summary
** ***** ** ******** ********** in the United States Marine Corp, 4 years in the infantry and 16 years of Special Operations Forces (SOF). Served in various positions conducting and instructing military special operations to include Direct Action, Special Reconnaissance, Foreign Internal Defense, and Counter Insurgency. Served in multiple overseas high-risk environments collecting intelligence for the Department of Defense. Taught hundreds of military and high risk civilian personnel, both stateside and overseas in basic to advanced survival skills to include: combatives, basic marksmanship, advanced marksmanship, close quarter battle, reconnaissance & surveillance and intelligence gathering. Planned and executed numerous high profile combined operations to include kinetic and non-kinetic operations from the Middle East, North Africa, South and Central America. Fluent Spanish and Portuguese speaker with an active Top Secret Security clearance.
(Jan 2002- June 2005)
1st BN 2nd Marines - Camp Lejeune, NC
nRifleman (Iraq)
nTeam Leader (Iraq)
nScout Sniper Platoon (Afghanistan)
(Oct 2005- Nov 2021)
Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) - Stone Bay, NC
nServed, in multiple operational and instructional billets to include leadership and supervisory positions at tactical and operational levels. Deployed multiple times in various operational leadership positions across kinetic and non-kinetic regions of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, conducting all aspects of special operations. Positions and billets include Element Leader, Team Operations Chief, Team Chief, Special Operations Task Force Assistant Operations Chief and Chief Instructor.
nPlanned and executed 50 high risk direct action operations, planned and completed 140 Special reconnaissance operations covering vast operational requirements, and multiple other combat related missions throughout the aforementioned regions.
nInstructed, mentored and supervised over 800 Special Operators in the following subjects and disciplines; all aspects of Special Reconnaissance from basic to advanced, special operations planning, intelligence gathering operations, direct action and dynamic entry, basic and advanced marksmanship and a variety of close quarters battle (CQB) techniques and procedures, Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE), served as chief survival instructor for the SERE survival section. Stood up the MARSOC combatitves program and incorporated Special Operations Combatives Program (SOCP) in to the Marine Raider Training Course.
Education
Military Training
nMarine Raider Training Course
nMarine Corps Martial Arts Program, Black Belt 2nd Degree Instructor
nSurvival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape Instructor course
nJPRA SERE 260
nSpecial Operations Planners Course
nBasic Instructor Skills Course
nSystems Approach to Training
nJoint Special Operations University Irregular Warfare 9D
nMARSOC Close Quarters Battle Leaders Course
nMulti-Mission Parachutist
nTactical Combat Casualty Care
nBasic Surveillance Course
nProject Merlin
nLone Operator Course
nLow Vis Tactics Course
nDavid Scott Donaldson Man Tracking Course
nSpecial Reconnaissance Course
nDynamic Entry Course
nSpecial Operations Combatives Program Instructor
nAntiterrorist Driving
nSurvival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape
nAdvanced Evasion
nMountain Leaders Course (Summer)
nInfantry Training Battalion (rifleman)
nInfantry Squad Leaders Course
nInfantry Unit Leaders Course
Education
Civilian Training
nBachelor’s Degree Sociology (American Military University)
nCertified Kali/ Escrima instructor
nBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu Instructor (Black Belt 1st Degree)
nGracie Combatives Instructor
nKrav Maga Instructor
nFormal Schools Instructor