BILL RAPIER | Serving Christ While Killing for Uncle Sam (Ep. 314)
In this episode, we welcome Bill Rapier to the show. He served 20 years in the Navy SEAL teams, and his last 14 years of his service to this country were spent with the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). During his career, he spent time as an assaulter, breacher, sniper, team leader, troop chief, and military working dog department senior enlisted adviser. After retiring from the military, he launched a firearms training company called American Tactical Shooting Instruction (Amtac). Amtac courses cover combative pistol and carbine and also the integration of other weapons like blades. In this interview, we discuss growing up in a family of Christian missionaries, why he was drawn to the US military, why he decided to become a SEAL, how he became a part of DEVGRU, when his job choice clashed with his Christian worldview, how he felt after his first combat kill, the problem of the lack of true manliness in the church, what he’s doing to develop rites of passage for young men, and much more. Let’s get into it…
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