Strike Corps

Founders

Ronald K. Robertson

The primary founder of Strike Corps is Mr. Ronald K. Robertson. Mr. Robertson has prior security experience in the U.S. Army Special Forces and exposure to protective services since 1976. Mr. Robertson has a MBA in marketing and prior experience in the insurance industry, including insurance sales and working for the university insurance department as a graduate assistant. Mr. Robertson's entrepreneurial experiences include management of early-stage, growth companies in their product development, distribution, administration, security, marketing & sales, finance, project management, etc. He has proven multiple general management talents essential to managing entrepreneurial ventures and projects. He has extensive hands-on experience at strategic analysis, marketing/sales, business plans, finance, computer/internet applications, regulatory compliance and technology management. These backgrounds were developed in the military and industry, a nationally accredited MBA, and a long and successful involvement in high tech ventures and venture capital. Have demonstrated successes in market development, contract negotiations, business modeling, and fund-raising attributable to exceptional vision, analytical and communication skills.

John W. Jones

The Chief Security Officer for Strike Corps is Mr. John W. Jones. Mr. Jones has an extensive background in Security Management, Security Planning, High Risk Operations and Special Operations during his professional career. He also has extensive experience in identifying security requirements, conducting threat and vulnerability analysis and developing and implementing protection programs to meet customer requirements and mitigating vulnerabilities to acceptable levels for major U.S. Government installations and commercial customers. Specifically, he has focused on senior level security management that includes development of policies, procedures, conducting Vulnerability and Threat Analysis, Job Tasks Analysis and Security Training Programs designed to meet the training requirements identified in the Job Tasks Analysis. Additionally, he has developed a "Risk Based Graded Security Process" in which the threats are identified and cost effective mitigating options are then developed for those threats.

Mark Vargas

The Security Audits Director is Mark Vargas, a retired US Special Forces Command Sergeant Major and a decorated veteran who served with the 5th Special Forces Group throughout the Middle East during his 22-year career. Recently, as the Vice President for CTU/Al Dhahir, he was responsible for the management of over 1560 Personal Security Details (PSD) that performed without impairment to the client, the management of 150 static security personnel posted throughout greater Baghdad in high-risk areas, and performing security surveys for various clients. As a Security Project Manager for KBR-MER, Mr. Vargas managed PSD services for Halliburton and KBR vice presidents, and the Planning, Tracking, and Trending Cell which provided intelligence and security products to 34 KBR camps throughout Iraq. As Chief for the United States Army-Europe (USAREUR) Vulnerability Assessment Team, Mr. Vargas directed two 6-person teams of security and engineering experts in evaluating numerous fixed and expeditionary sites using Joint Staff Vulnerability Assessment (JSVA) models, which included assessing infrastructure resources, providing a mitigation plan, and coaching and training facility Antiterrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) officers. While serving as the US Army's V Corp AT/FP Officer for the Commanding General, LTG Wallace, as well as the COR for SAIC, Mr. Vargas managed the V Corps' Security Program affecting 13 Army Brigades, 60,000 soldiers and 150,000 family members based and deployed throughout EUCOM and CENTCOM AORs. He has completed AT/FP levels II, III, and IV, USACE Physical and Electronic Security Engineering Courses and the Defense Language Institute for Egyptian Arabic. Mr. Vargas has a BS in Liberal Arts (Psychology) and a MS in Business Management from Troy State University.

Ronald E. Owens

The Security Training Director is Ronald E. Owens. Mr. Owens has had over 34 years of extensive training experiences in a multitude of applications, including security. As consultant and employee for private industry and federal government, he assisted outside contract agencies and established contractors (e.g. Business Risk International, Varicon International, Brittell & Hoy, Inc., American Protective Services and Applied Methods Inc., Kroll Associates, CitiCorp and Drexel, Burnham & Lambert) with task needs analysis, physical security, surveys, equipment needs, crisis management training, report writing, management assessment, attitude surveys, behavior training & modification, as well as force on force exercises. Projects included Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Idaho DOE, Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Also worked for Daniel International Corporation as Senior Training Specialist, Training Manager and Instructor at locations in North Carolina, Kentucky and Saudi Arabia. Completed and implemented programs at Nuclear Power Plants, Aluminum Rolling Mills, and King Abdul Abzid International Airport. Served in U.S. Army Special Forces as NCOIC of SCUBA & Special Equipment locker at Ft. Bragg, N.C., SCUBA detachment A-team member and RECON leader in Vietnam with CCN (MACVSOG).

Gary L. O'Neal

After 40 years with the US Army Rangers and Special Forces, Chief Warrant Officer Gary Lee O'Neal (Ret.) defines Tokala Warrior. Trained from childhood in the warrior traditions of the Oglala Sioux, Mr. O’Neal epitomizes the spirit of the Ranger/Green Beret.

Drafted in 1969, Mr. O'Neal reenlisted, serving multiple combat tours in Vietnam with multiple elite teams — from the 173rd Airborne Brigade line company, Battalion Reconnaissance (Recon), Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRPS), and Company C-75th Rangers to the 5th Special Forces Group (SFG). He served on some of the most dangerous missions of the war including special reconnaissance, Prisoner of War (POW) rescue, sniper operations and classified operations involving multinational forces.

Awarded the Silver and Bronze Stars during his Vietnam service, Mr. O’Neal refused the award of the Purple Heart several times, regarding his wounds as hard-earned learning experience rather than reason for decoration. Mr. O’Neal mastered several styles of martial arts, among them, military Muay Thai, Hwarang Do, Chinese and Okinawan Kenpo, Ninjutsu, and Jiujitsu. Tailoring the techniques to military combat, he developed what eventually became his own school, the American Warrior Free Fighting System, in which he holds a 10th-degree black belt along with a 6th-degree Dan black belt in American Karate Do.

Returning from Vietnam, O’Neal served with Company B-75th Rangers and later joined ODA 594, 5th SFG, completing scuba and sub-operations training. Handpicked as one of the first men on DoD’s first anti-terrorist teams, he also shared his expertise in the creation and training of the first Special Operations teams. Mr. O’Neal spent over 15 years training and fighting with American and Latin American forces in Central and South America.

Later, having earned accolades as an instructor of US and foreign military free-fall (HALO/HAHO), tandem, small unit tactics, hand-to-hand combat, SWAT tactics, recon, and hostage rescue, he was personally selected by Colonel James Rowe to help establish the US Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) School, where he assisted in developing the POI, lesson plans, and actual survival manual.

Mr. O’Neal served with the US Army Parachute Team (Golden Knights), competing nationally and internationally with distinction. As NCOIC of the R&D detachment of the Military Free Fall (MFF) School, he helped to develop tandem and MFF bundle delivery systems. Key in developing the advanced MFF course and training assistance teams, he was selected by General Wayne A. Downing as Safety and Training Officer and was instrumental in organizing the school SOP and redesigning its POI.

Retiring in 1996, Mr. O’Neal attended advanced aviation technology school and worked as a military technical advisor for movies and television. Severely injured in a motorcycle accident, he returned to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to recuperate. Asked to return to Ft. Bragg to train SF recruits, Mr. O’Neal served from 2004 to 2007 as a master trainer in the world's largest unconventional warfare field exercise (Robin Sage), where his lifelong commitment to training—mind, body, and spirit—has continued to focus on being the Tokala Warrior.