From Combat Marine to SWAT Cop! Asa Keefe

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with United States Marine combat veteran, current police officer and SWAT member Asa Keefe and he discusses his time as an active duty Marine during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 to becoming an officer in a major police department and his time as a Swat member and field training officer. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss an unsuccessful lawsuit against Armslist.com by gun control advocates. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	I've seen a lot of cops get hurt because they were afraid to use a little bit of violence early.
0:07.5	And so what wound up happening is they had to use more violence later.
0:13.3	Hey gang, I guarantee if you're watching the main channel, you're seeing these videos of people in self-defense encounters all the time.
0:19.4	People start bleeding. they start bleeding fast.
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0:42.7	Go to Mountain Manmedical.com and let them know you heard about them on the Ask podcast.
0:48.0	All right, folks, welcome back to the Active Self Protection Podcast.
0:51.1	I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite, former Fed with us today,
0:56.2	Asa Keefe. Asa is a 10-year police officer. He's a police officer too with a major
1:01.3	metropolitan police department. He served one tour in the United States Marine Corps. He left as a
1:07.0	sergeant. He is now a patrol officer, a member of the SWAT team, and a field training
1:11.5	officers. He's got a lot of irons in the fire. Asa, thanks so much for being with us today. Hey, Mike, thanks for having us. You know, John hooked us up together to have this conversation, and we were just talking about what we're going to talk about, and I've decided we're just going to talk and see what comes Adam, you have some pretty interesting stories.
1:27.2	So I think this will go pretty well. You're married. Do you have any kids?
1:30.0	I am married. I have no kids. Okay. And you've been with this agency for 10 years now. Prior to that, you were Marine. That's right. Did you grow up in that area? I did not. I actually grew up on the East Coast. We'll just say that I'm on the West Coast I actually grew up on the East Coast.
1:45.3	We'll just say that I'm on the West Coast and I grew up on the East Coast.
1:48.2	I actually grew up in Vermont, very, very small town that ultimately the Marine Corps
1:53.8	drew me away from Vermont and brought me to the West Coast.
2:00.0	But I grew up in a very small town,
2:01.9	and now I live in a much larger city. Yeah, Vermont is lovely. We had some friends there. We went up to
2:06.8	the White Mountains a couple of times and hung out with some friends of mine. A guy was a Boy Scout
2:11.4	with me. And it was absolutely lovely. A little too cold for me in the winter and a little too much
2:17.2	Bernie Sanders for me now to actually want to actually want to live there.
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