From Army Ranger to Undercover Counter Narcotics Agent | Ep. 272 | Pt.1

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

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4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In this gripping episode of the Mike Drop podcast, host Mike Ritland welcomes Craig Douglas, aka "SouthNarc," the founder of ShivWorks and a tactical training icon. From military school discipline that launched him into the Army Rangers, through 21 intense years in undercover narcotics and SWAT, to becoming a world-renowned instructor for elite military, intelligence, and law enforcement teams, Douglas shares raw stories of survival, faith, fatherhood at 57, and hard-won lessons on real-world violence that challenge conventional self-defense thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0	The military school was a pretty significant average.
0:35.0	We had routine inspections, daily inspections. You get a
0:38.8	demerit for anything, you get four or five demerits in a half day. A penalty
0:44.2	tour was on the weekend 30 minutes worth of marching in full dress uniform with a
0:51.8	grand troll rifle around the quad. And it was severe.
0:56.0	It gave me the structure that no one really provided.
1:00.0	And I needed structure.
1:02.0	Going to that school, was that the springboard into the Army?
1:07.0	Yeah, it was, absolutely.
1:09.0	I went from 11 Bravo, you know, an infantry guy.
1:11.6	I went from basic to AIT, John School, to the rep, and then went to 375.
1:17.6	That was fun.
1:18.6	That was cool.
1:19.6	I even had a couple of things early on in the uniform side that kind of clued me in martial arts in the real world or fighting
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