CAPABILITIES BRIEF 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years “Ask Yourself this Question…” Why would thousands of America’s best fighters come year after year to a small private company for critical pre-mission training? “Here’s why…” Because when their lives are on the line…they will always choose the best company that will help them win the fight and come home safely to their families! Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years Gryphon’s Training Facilities: Gryphon Group's Fort Bragg Combat Training Center is a fully licensed and staffed 500 acre full-spectrum training center located 15 minutes South-West of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The entire facility is zoned "Heavy Industrial" with Conditional Use Permits for Live-Fire Military-Level Training to include High Explosives. Go to www.gryphonsecurity.com for a video tour of FBCTC. Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years GEMINI TRAINING COMPLEX Gryphon’s Gemini Training Complex is a world-class training facility that provides an advanced close-quarters combat laboratory. This 11,000 square foot low-profile facility sits on 4 acres in Aberdeen, North Carolina (15 minutes from Fort Bragg). Gemini enables Gryphon to conduct complex multi-dimensional scenarios in a very realistic environment. The main features of the Gemini Training Facility are: ➢ 24 Person Fully Equipped Briefing Room/Classroom ➢ 4,000 Square Foot Two-Story Fully Furnished Force-on-Force CQC Shoot House ➢ Total Coverage Video Recording System of Complete CQC Shoot House ➢ 4K Video Cameras that are High Quality Low-Res Capable for Night Operations ➢ 24 Person Multi-Monitor Room for Real-Time Observation and Brief-Back of CQC Shoot House ➢ Trained Role Players & OPFOR Team to Provide Realistic Mission Environment ➢ Complete CQC Shoot House is Designed to Rapidly Change the Flow & Layout in One Hour or Less ➢ Mechanical & Shotgun Breachable Exterior Door Jig Mounted to CQC Shoot House ➢ Multi-Room, Multi-Door, Multi-Hallway “Half Wall” CQC Rehearsal Area ➢ Close Tactical Reconnaissance Training Capable Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years Gryphon’s Gemini Training Complex can be populated with role players dressed and acting as citizens in any particulars region of the world, televisions showing recent news events or television shows from any country in the world, radios playing music from the target country, as well as target language signs, books, magazines etc, all which will create very realistic training environments to practice specific mission scenarios. Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years GRYPHON ADVISORY BOARD Brigadier General Gary “Mike” Jones (U.S. Army Special Forces – Retired) Chairman – Gryphon Advisory Board Gary “Mike” Jones is now the Chairman of the Gryphon Board of Advisors. He was the President of Gryphon Group for 10 years, and is recognized as a proven, experienced-forged senior leader in military and international affairs. General Jones has 28-years military special operations experience with extensive operational expertise in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, the Caribbean, Central America and the Middle East. Some of the milestones of his exceptional military career include: • Commander, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) • Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Special Operations Command • Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency Counter-Terrorism Center • Deputy Commander, Combined Joint Task Force-Mountain-Operation Enduring Freedom • Commanding General, Special Operations Europe • Commanding General, United States Army Special Forces Command After his years of military service, General Jones served as Senior Vice President for Performance Materials, Inc., a company providing innovative armor solutions for the Department of Defense; as Senior Vice President of Saffron Technology, an innovative Software Company providing state of the art analytical support to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community; and as President of Myrmidon Consulting, LLC. He has provided consulting support to U.S. Special Operations Command as a senior mentor to the Unified Quest series exercises, and to the Joint Chiefs of Staff J7 for Irregular Warfare doctrinal review. General Jones is an alumnus of Louisiana State University where he earned a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the Army War College and the Conflict Management and Negotiation programs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Major General Edward M. Reeder Jr. (U.S. Army Special Forces – Retired) Member – Gryphon Advisory Board Major General (Ret.) Edward M. Reeder Jr. retired from the US Army after nearly 35 years of service. Reeder spent the last 30 years in uniform as a Special Forces Officer commanding at every level in the US Army Special Forces. Reeder served as the Commanding General of the US Army Special Forces Command, consisting of 15,000 Soldiers with a $450M USD operating budget. He was responsible for manning, training, equipping, and deploying the elite US Army Green Berets operating in 56 different countries each day. Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years He also served as the Commanding General of the US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. He was responsible for the entry level training of the US Army Special Forces, Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs, as well as, selected advanced training for the greater US Special Operations community. His other assignments include: • National Civil Defense Advisor, Republic of El Salvador in 1988. He was responsible for organizing, training, and equipping a local defense force of 58,000 volunteer fighters. • Reeder also commanded Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha 786 in support of Operation JUST CAUSE in 1989; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group under Task Force Black, Republic of Panama. • He commanded Special Operations Task Force 32 (2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Afghanistan in 2002 and again in 2003. • He commanded the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan (7th Special Forces Group) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Afghanistan in 2006 and again in 2007. He was responsible for all US Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, as well as, the special operations from the United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, and the Netherlands. • Reeder also planned, organized, established and served as the Commanding General of the first Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010. He was responsible for all US Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, as well as, special operations from the United Arab Emeritus, Jordan, France and Canada. • From 2014 to 2015 he served as the Commanding General of the Special Operations Joint Task Force/ NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation FREEDOM SENTINEL. The Special Operations Joint Task Force consisted of 12,500 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines from 21 different countries with an operating budget of $1.3B USD. He was responsible for all US and NATO Special Operations in Afghanistan. Captain William McMichael "Bill" Shepherd (U.S. Navy SEAL & NASA Astronaut – Retired) Member – Gryphon Advisory Board William McMichael "Bill" Shepherd is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut who served as Commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. He is also a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Shepherd has logged over 159 days in space. Education and Training Shepherd received a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1971. He completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in 1972, then joined the United States Naval Special Warfare Command and qualified as a Navy SEAL. He served with the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team ELEVEN, SEAL Teams ONE and TWO, and Special Boat Unit TWENTY. He obtained an Engineer's degree in Ocean Engineering and an MS in mechanical engineering in 1978 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. NASA Career Shepherd was selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1984, as the first military non-aviator in astronaut training, following his unsuccessful application for NASA Astronaut Group 9 in 1980. In 1986, his Navy SEAL training proved unexpectedly useful to NASA as he helped to direct the underwater salvage operations of the Space Shuttle Gryphon Group Capabilities Brief - 2020 Serving America’s Best for Over 18 Years Challenger after its destruction. Shepherd then served as a Mission Specialist on three Space Shuttle flights: mission STS-27 in 1988, mission STS-41 in 1990, which deployed the Ulysses probe, and mission STS-52 in 1992. He was the first member of NASA Astronaut Group 10 to fly a space mission. From March 1993 to January 1996, he was assigned to the International Space Station Program, serving as Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager. In November 1995 he was selected to command the first crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was supposed to launch in 1997, but a long series of political, financial, and technical problems caused significant delays. Spaceflight Experience • STS-27: Atlantis (December 2–6, 1988) Shepherd served with his crewmates on a mission which lasted 105 hours and carried Department of Defense payloads. • STS-41: Discovery (October 6–10, 1990) during 66 orbits of the Earth, the crew aboard the Orbiter successfully deployed the Ulysses, starting it on a four-year journey (via Jupiter) to investigate the polar regions of the Sun.