JON “MARTY” MARTINEZ

Jon A. Martinez is a United States Army Veteran that served for 25 years as an 11B Infantryman. Born and raised in Tri-Cities, Washington. Jon's experience comes from 25 years as an Infantryman in Tactics, Techniques, and procedures, heavy and light weapons training, Instructor, Trainer, and Combat Operations.

Jon’s career began at Fort Benning, Georgia where he successfully attended and graduated from Infantry Basic Training and Airborne School. Also, he attended many other schools such as Air Assault School, Drill Sergeant School and many more advance training and courses throughout his career.

Jon, deployed and conducted combat operations during the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He also served as a team leader for a search and rescue team in Honduras while supporting counter drug and humanitarian operations. He has trained foreign military as a contractor and recently conducted security operations at natural disaster areas in the US. Jon has also worked on security details throughout the United States and abroad after his retirement from the United States Army.

Jon has been stationed in Germany, Fort Hood, Texas, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Fort Lewis, Washington, Honduras, Hawaii, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Carson, Colorado.

Jon retired from the military in 2013 and was selected by the United Arab Emirates Land Forces to deploy to the UAE and train their Infantry Soldiers until 2015. He then pursued getting Executive Protection, Basic Security Officer, Armed Security Officer and National Rifle Association Instructor certifications.

During Jon's military career serving as a Drill Instructor, small and large group Instructor, and Observer Controller in the Army he learned valuable instructor techniques. Jon has trained hundreds of soldiers and personnel. Training a variety of people from all aspects of life in order to mold them in to Soldiers. This training and experiences as held develop Jon into a dynamic and professional instructor.

Jon’s contributions to this company are his leadership abilities and training experience not only at home station, but during proven combat operations. Jon’s passion is training future soldiers, leaders, civilians, Security Professionals, and Law Enforcement Officers too high standards so that they can professionally pass on his knowledge to the next level of professionals.