Ep32 | James Yeager - Tactical Response

I am unsure when this was recorded. I believe it was 2019 or 2020, maybe right before his death in 2022. I found it today as I was cleaning out my files, but can't find the video. Perhaps it was via phone with John Valentine, I don't recall.

From Guns.com, here:

James Yeager, one of the most recognizable figures within the firearms training community and the gun industry in general, passed away Sept. 2.

Yeager was a voracious firearms trainer – with a career stretching back to 1994 – and forged a lengthy course history that reads not unlike the genealogy in the Book of Genesis. Boasting a student roster reportedly somewhere in the tens of thousands, he worked with everyone from military special forces units and elite law enforcement teams around the world, not to mention self-defense and tactically-inclined American civilians.

Indeed, his last “Big Mission” was just this last spring, when Yeager set off for war-torn Ukraine to train 150 Ukrainian soldiers as Russian forces knocked on the doors of the capital Kiev. But he is perhaps best known to the broader firearms community for his role as CEO of Tactical Response, the kind of firearms and tactical training company that proudly boasts the motto, “We teach good people to kill bad people.”