Kevin Owens: Irish Army Tier One Counter-Terrorist Force Soldier and U.S. Special Operations Combat Veteran
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🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 253 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Owens is a special operations combat veteran and is currently the Training Manager at FieldCraft Survival. Kevin served in the Irish Army’s Tier One Counter-Terrorist Unit before immigrating to the United States where he served for six years in the Infantry and 18 years as a Special Forces Soldier.
During his time in the U.S. Army, Kevin participated in multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He ran the Special Forces Sniper Course, and was in charge of all Force Modernization for Army Special Forces. Kevin also has the distinction of winning the 2020 NDIA Hatchcock Award for his significant contributions to the U.S. Military Sniper Community.
Today, Kevin is the Training Manager at FieldCraft Survival’s North Carolina Headquarters in Aberdeen, NC.
Kevin’s new podcast, The Kevin Owens Podcast, is about resilience, training, and mindset told through lessons he learned from his time as a Green Beret.
You can find more about FieldCraft Survival at fieldcraftsurvival.com , follow them on Instagram @fieldcraftsurvival , and subscribe to their YouTube Channel.
You can follow Kevin on Instagram @kevin.p.owens
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | Beyond the Books with me, Jack Carr. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal Credit |
| 0:22.2 | Union. |
| 0:23.2 | My next novel only the dead hits shelves this spring. |
| 0:27.0 | You can go to officialjackarr.com right now and check out the Cover Reveal video. |
| 0:32.7 | My guest today, Kevin Owens. |
| 0:35.3 | Kevin has a very unique story. |
| 0:37.4 | Grew up in Ireland, joined the Irish military, Irish special operations. |
| 0:42.2 | Then did some contracting, then to the United States. |
| 0:45.6 | Into the US Army, US special operations, and now runs courses for field craft survival |
| 0:51.2 | at their North Carolina operation. |
| 0:54.0 | Now, without further ado, Kevin Owens. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's kick it off. |
| 1:02.0 | Awesome. |
| 1:03.0 | Thanks for making the trek. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | A little snowy out there. |
| 1:06.0 | A little bit. |
| 1:07.0 | And yeah, my glover did not let you know he did not. |
| 1:10.0 | It's interesting because when he came up here before the snow, he asked if his car could |
| 1:14.8 | make it. |
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