BILL RAPIER | Serving Christ While Killing for Uncle Sam (Ep. 314)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Bill Rapier to the show. He served 20 years in the Navy SEAL teams, and his last 14 years of his service to this country were spent with the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). During his career, he spent time as an assaulter, breacher, sniper, team leader, troop chief, and military working dog department senior enlisted adviser. After retiring from the military, he launched a firearms training company called American Tactical Shooting Instruction (Amtac). Amtac courses cover combative pistol and carbine and also the integration of other weapons like blades. In this interview, we discuss growing up in a family of Christian missionaries, why he was drawn to the US military, why he decided to become a SEAL, how he became a part of DEVGRU, when his job choice clashed with his Christian worldview, how he felt after his first combat kill, the problem of the lack of true manliness in the church, what he’s doing to develop rites of passage for young men, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:39.5	Our guys today have got a special guest on the podcast. His name is Bill Rapier.
0:42.8	So Bill is the United States Navy veteran. He served 20 years in the United States Navy Seals.
0:47.1	In the last 14 years of his service to this country, we're spent with Naval Special Warfare
0:51.4	Development Group, otherwise known as DevGroup. And during his career, he spent time as an
0:55.6	assaultor, breacher, sniper, team leader, troop chief, military working dog department senior
1:00.3	and listed advisor. This guy did just about everything. And even after retirement, he didn't want to
1:04.9	just stop doing that type of stuff. He launched a firearms training company called Amtac Tactical
1:10.4	Shooting Instruction or Amtac for short. And Amtac courses, they cover combative pistol and
1:15.2	carbine and also integration of other weapons like blades and things like that. And I actually missed
1:19.6	out on going to a class. He was going to be doing it here in my own neck of the woods here in
1:23.2	Oklahoma City. But I missed out because we had the birth of squish and we had a lot of stuff
1:27.1	that we needed to do around that time. So I wasn't able to peel off and do that. But I will be doing
1:30.8	that in the future. But these classes are very well regarded, very highly reviewed. And obviously,
1:34.8	you're getting, you know, teaching from one of the greatest, you know, the greatest trained
1:40.4	type of a warrior in this type of a setting. So it's very hard press for you to be able to find
1:45.2	training that would be better for you than something like that. But I want to go ahead and give a
1:48.8	shout out to Chris Flimmer. That's a listener of this podcast. He actually got me and Bill
1:51.9	together because I wanted to have Bill in the show for a long time. And one of the reasons I want
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