🚨↘️ Sign up for the VE Newsletter ↙️🚨 https://www.vigilanceelite.com/newsletter In this episode Shawn Ryan sits down with Travis Kennedy, a former Navy SEAL, BUD/S instructor, and currently the CEO of KDS. We start off discussing the tension and unrest within the United States in regards to the President's response of an attack on US Embassy in Iraq to coordinate a drone strike on the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Shawn then gets into the details of Kennedy's broken home childhood, and how he overcame all odds in becoming one the United States' elite Navy SEAL Operators. Travis takes the audience into the details of what combat looks like as an elite operator. Shawn then digs into Travis's transition from military life to civilian life, how the FBI decided he was not a qualified candidate to work for the organization and how he moved passed that denial. Please go to the Apple link below, follow, and leave a review to support the show. It's all we ask. Thank you and enjoy the show. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shawn-ryan-show/id1492492083 Travis Kennedy Links: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/traviskennedy267 YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzl_Fdw4LC44YX_yInbSPOg #VIGILANCEELITE #SHAWNRYANSHOW Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website - https://www.vigilanceelite.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shawnryan762/ - https://www.instagram.com/vigilanceelite/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/shawnryan762/ - https://www.facebook.com/VigilanceElite/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/VigilanceElite Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-ryan-84b97314a/ Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 3:00 - Welcome To SRS 8:25 - Childhood 22:00 - BUD/S 49:48 - Call From Dad 1:01:06 - Deployment 1:29:51 - Op Tempo 1:40:19 - Call From Frozen Trident 1:49:29 - BUD/S Instructor 2:11:28 - Hell Week 2:34:20 - Special Operations Urban Combat