The founder of Tip of the Spear is a 77-year-old still kicking Marine, former deep sea diver, former smuggler, real estate developer, and charitable tax planner.

If there wasn’t risk involved, he wasn’t interested.

He was asked the question, “why are you doing t…

Wayne was a scrawny little kid growing up on Montrose Avenue in Lafayette Louisiana.

Back in the day, most young men were drafted in the army. Some unfortunate was sent in the Marines. Wayne was one of those.

He was issued 03 11 for his MOS. He was a grunt in th…

Ken lives in Dothan Alabama and has been able to pull his life together.

The bottle was able to take him down, but Ken went through the steps of recovery. Thankful for the VA, he enjoys his life and was able to repair his family.

Teddy can only remember curling up in a foxhole to catch some zzz whenever he could.

When he wasn’t kicking down doors in Fallujah, he was preaching the gospel. Teddy is studying to be an ordain minister.

Smitty was this black guy from the southside of Chicago who is no stranger to violence.

But his mama didn’t raise him to burn villages. His moral injury from burning people and villages remain in his head.

Royal ROYL Wayne was a rather nerdy type of sailor, but he was very good with numbers. He could calculate five different sets of equations at once. 

Royal became the crew chief on a nuclear submarine. He doesn’t sleep very well at night. In fact, he’s only comf…

Meet Todd.

He had a rather mundane deployment directing traffic at the airbase in Baghdad. When one day he received orders for a special operation, he was told to keep quiet, put a ski mask on to hide his identity, and escort a high profile prisoner.

Todd was se…