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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Phil Crafts Survival Podcast. I'm your host Mikey. Today I got a special co-host in the house.

Kevin Owens, welcome to the podcast Kevin.

Hey Mike, what's going on?

Oh, you were all hype a minute ago.

Okay, okay. So Kevin is a good buddy of mine in special operations and this is another episode of the Tactical Review Podcast.

It's been a while. It's been a couple of podcasts since we've done the Tactical Review Podcast.

And I wanted to do one since good friend of ours, Gina was in California and she basically got denied access to buying ammo for a training course that she was going to in the Great Old State of California.

And so that just kicked it off and I was like, you know what, I got enough things to talk about with the Tactical Review Podcast.

And so we need to cover that and much, much more. If you guys don't know the Tactical Review Podcast, it's a review of all the natural MAMA disasters.

Since the last time we talked, talking about ways to deal with tactics, techniques and procedures, whether it's countering tactics, whether it's just better practices and ways to deal with natural and MAMA disasters.

But if you understand tactics, you understand they always change. And so if we want to stay ahead of them, we got to talk about them as they happen.

So we don't get complacent. So Kevin's a good buddy of mine, special operations sniper has been had a long career and special operations both in Ireland as well as the United States.

And he's my guest on here because I want to get different perspectives. I want to get different perspectives of experiences and expertise who might lend a different point of view that might benefit you as well.

So let's kick straight into the podcast. Kevin, you know, for people who are listening to this podcast, can you give a little bit about your background? I know you have a pretty long career field and there's things I discover by you every single day.

Just tell people about like your background where you started and kind of where you're at now.

OK, yeah, I was born and grew up in Ireland, lived in Ireland until I was 25 and then came to the States with a green card. But while I was in Ireland, I joined the Army when I was 18 and I spent two years patrolling the border in Northern Ireland,

checkpoints, surges, patrols, all that kind of stuff. And then I went to special operations. I was in a counter terrorist unit that tier one counter terrorist unit in Ireland for about five years.

And then I then I got out and I had a few things that some contract work and then I got a green card to come to the States, came to the States, joined the Army with the green card.

And then after I got my citizen, she spent a couple of years in the infantry. After I got my green card, I was able to go to special operations went to SF, US Army, your green beret.

Yeah, US Army green beret and deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq multiple times. And then you we ended up on the same team for a couple of years and we did a lot of combat ops together.

And it kind of led me to where I am now.

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