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#222 After Dark: Mission Over Man: Undertraining, Overconfidence, and Being One Bad Plan Away from a Disaster With Christian DeVinney

2026-11-1301:44:37

I sat down with Christian DeVinney, a retired sergeant, twenty-year SWAT veteran, and founder of Mission Over Man, for a candid back-porch breakdown of what law enforcement training needs to do better. From teams running warrants with little to no CQB training, to the quiet morale rot that sets in when SWAT guys stop getting used, to the dysfunction of sending one motivated officer to a great course and then expecting him to rebuild the whole program from memory, Christian has lived every ver...

#221 After Dark: From Bethlehem to Covert Ops: Yousef Sansour on Explosive Breaching, Elite Unit Culture, and Building Esoteric LLC

2026-11-0602:25:42

You think you know how someone ends up as a counter-terrorism operator, explosive breaching expert, and founder of their own tactical training company. You don't know Yousef Sansour's story. Born in Bethlehem, he drove his college roommate to a police academy sign-up. What followed was thirty years of patrol, narcotics, federal task forces, the 9/11 investigation, a selection process that controlled every detail down to the airport pickup, and deployments across six or seven continents workin...

#220 Six Years In: Why I Built The Capable Standard (And What It Means for You)

2026-10-3111:14

Get The Capable Standard free Weekly Brief: https://thecapablestandard.com Something has been coming together behind the scenes at Iron Sights, and in this episode I finally say it out loud. No launch video, no hype reel, no sponsor read. Just me, talking to you the way I would if you were sitting right across from me. It's called The Capable Standard and I want to walk you through it myself. If you already hold the standard, if you're already doing the work and being serious about it...

#219 After Dark: How One Line-Level Officer Rewrote the Qualification and is Shifting His Whole Agency's Shooting Culture with The 9mm Musashi

2026-10-3002:01:43

Get The Capable Standard free Weekly Brief: https://thecapablestandard.com You've heard the complaint a thousand times: law enforcement qualifications are a joke. A static firing line, a generous time window, a pass or fail check mark, and everyone goes home. Nothing changes. Nobody improves. Nobody cares. So what actually moves the needle? Joey, an ISP repeat offender guest and the host of the Sketchy Boyz Watch Club podcast, sits back down at the Iron Sights table to walk through exactly wh...

#218 After Dark: John Constantine: What 15 Years on the Secret Service Counter Assault Team Taught Him About Leadership, Identity, and Letting Go

2026-10-2302:35:59

John Constantine is retired US Secret Service and author of Hallways and Stairwells. This is a long-form conversation that moves from presidential protection to personal identity and back again. John spent roughly 23 years in the service, 15 of them on the Counter Assault Team, the guys in the black BDUs running motorcades and stacking up for the worst day that hopefully never comes. That particular mission, always training, always ready, almost never firing a round operationally, turns out t...

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