GDC – Grid Down Consulting provides our Elite clients exclusive access to top experts and advisors in unique specialties, to ensure a survival retreat providing unparalleled security while also offering the highest quality of life.
11 specialists
CHIEF OPSEC ADVISOR
Chad Robichaux and Eddie Gallagher bring a vast amount of special operations experience to designing and building effective security perimeters at your retreat.
Chad Robichaux is a former USMC Force Recon Marine and DoD contractor who completed eight deployments to Afghanistan with a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force. He led major civilian evacuations from Afghanistan (over 17,000 people) and continues humanitarian operations in high-risk areas.
The founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, he’s delivered faith-based PTSD assistance to hundreds of thousands of veterans. Chad is also a former MMA Champion, bestselling author, speaker, producer, and host of The Resilient Show.
Chief OPSEC Officer
Chad Robichaux and Eddie Gallagher bring a vast amount of special operations experience to designing and building effective security perimeters at your retreat.
Eddie Gallagher is a retired Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer with nearly 20 years of service as a Navy Corpsman, Marine Scout Sniper, and Navy SEAL. He completed eight combat deployments, earned two Bronze Stars with “V” for Valor, and led a platoon against ISIS in Mosul in 2017, where he was named the top SEAL Chief.
Today he provides elite training programs drawn from his operational experience, hosts the Shoot Me Straight podcast, authored The Man in the Arena, and continues advocacy and leadership work through Gallagher Holdings.
CHIEF WEAPONS OFFICER
Selecting the best SHTF weapon systems and understanding collapse environment-specific gunfighting techniques can mean the difference between life and death.
Joe Hahn is a retired Navy SEAL who served 14 years, including time with SEAL Team 5 and selection into Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). He completed multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, participating in hundreds of high-risk missions, and was medically retired as a Special Operator First Class.
Joe now serves as Director of Training and Development at GBRS Group, focusing on knowledge transfer and tactical instruction.
Chief Grid Policy Advisor
Many of my clients want an inside track on grid security and vulnerabilities, as well as current legislative initiatives.
Lt. Col. Tommy Waller is the president & CEO of the Center for Security Policy and Secure the Grid Coalition, whose mission is to provide uncompromised analysis on threats to our Republic and unconventional solutions to keep Americans safer. Waller retired from the US Marine Corps after two decades of service in both active duty and the reserves as an Infantry and Expeditionary Ground Reconnaissance officer with deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, and South America, and with cross-assigned service to the US Air Force’s Electromagnetic Defense Task Force (EDTF). His final assignment was as Commanding Officer, 3d Force Reconnaissance Company.
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retired lieutenant colonel
Chief Technology Officer
Yuri is a seasoned forward-thinking entrepreneur and an innovator with a track record of unconventional and transformational leadership strategies.
Yuri has 26+ years of Management and Technology consulting experience. Working with leading-edge Hardware, Software as a Service and IIoT technology companies. He especially enjoys working with organizations looking to employ the next generation of Digital Transformation Strategies. Previous to the tech industry, Yuri has served as a Firefighter/EMT for 7 years and United States Army for 9 years.
Chief Military Liaison
(ret. Army)
Understanding the role of military functions in a collapse environment is important when planning where to build a survival retreat.
Gen Luke Reiner is currently the Chief of Staff of Foundation for Infrastructure Resilience; a nonprofit organization focused on building a resilient nation. Luke spent over 36 years in uniform and is a soldier for life. He was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II in 2004 where he successfully served as the mayor of a 10,000-man deployment camp. He retired in 2019 after serving eight years as Wyoming’s Adjutant General (TAG). During his tenure as the TAG, Luke served as a regular instructor at the US NORTHCOM Dual Hatted Commander course and as a leader in the Adjutant General’s Association Homeland Security Subcommittee.
Chief Weapons Officer
Selecting the best SHTF weapon systems and understanding collapse environment-specific gunfighting techniques can mean the difference between life and death. Only the best weapons trainer will do, and that is world-renown weapons expert, Chris Costa.
Prior to founding Costa Ludus in 2011, Chris Costa spent 4 years as the President of Magpul Dynamics. Costa has provided Red Team Vulnerability Assessments on critical infrastructures for the US Government. Prior to this, Costa spent 12 years with the United States Coast Guard, conducting counter-drug operations and special missions in Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
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Ex-President, Magpul Dynamics ·
12 yrs U.S. Coast Guard
Chief Medical Officer
Some of my clients have long-term needs for access to life-dependent medications and setting up and supplying medical treatment rooms at their retreat.
Dr. Michael Guirguis is a Harvard-trained board-certified Emergency Medicine physician specializing in Protective Medicine as an Executive Protection professional. With over two decades of experience at the intersection of clinical medicine, tactical environments, and high-risk operations, he helps security teams prevent, recognize, and manage medical risk before it becomes a crisis. Currently works with ultra high-net-worth family offices for medical oversight and direction for their security teams and private family office.
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Protective Medicine · 2+ decades
Chief Extraction Officer
Many of my clients have private security teams from reputable
companies. Unfortunately, many of them have never trained nor planned for post-EMP grid-down environments with no cell service, no radios, and none of their extraction vehicles functioning.
RJ Casey has 35+ years of special operations, remote medicine, multidomain recovery, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response experience with combat tours on four continents in the Department of War and other government agencies. Veteran entrepreneur in multiple companies and consulting for non-profits, feature film/TV, & other organizations. TS/SCI
Chief SERE Officer (Survival)
Survival skills for a grid down environment is far more than learning how to rub sticks together in the woods. We can facilitate specialized SERE training with your family and your team at your own retreat environment.
Michael Caughran was forged from the crucible of America’s most elite survival training program, US Air Force SERE. Michael managed training academies and personally refined the tactics, techniques, and procedures now used by military units, law enforcement agencies, and civilians across the country. When special operations forces need to disappear into hostile territory, when law enforcement officers face life-or-death situations, when civilians need to protect their families—they’re using methods in
part that Michael helped refine.
Chief SERE Officer
Survival skills for a grid down environment is far more than learning how to rub sticks together in the woods. We can facilitate specialized SERE training with your family and your team at your own retreat environment.
Will Hunsaker is a full-time survival instructor with Sigma 3 Survival School for over a decade. Will was a career infantryman in the U.S. Army who served with various units including the 75th Ranger Regiment. After military service, he dedicated his life to traveling and learning from numerous wilderness and survival schools gaining knowledge in a variety of environments, philosophies, and skills. He is experienced and skilled in a variety of survival disciplines including tactical tracking, primitive skills, plant medicine and S.E.R.E (Survival, enemy Evasion, interrogation Resistance, and Escape from capture).
CHIEF COMMS OFFICER
Specifically tailored and built communications systems designed for societal collapse environments, custom tailored to each survival retreat location and needs.
Unfortunately, the Comms expert I’ve worked with for the last decade recently moved overseas and is now unavailable.
*GDC is currently looking for a new Chief Comms Officer.
If you are interested and have experience setting up ham radio base stations, encrypted networks, and setting up hand radio communications… shoot us a link in the Contact me section.
Chief Comms Officer
Specifically tailored and built communications systems designed for societal collapse environments, custom tailored to each survival retreat location and needs.
Geopolitical Advisor
If you’re getting your geopolitical advice from the mainstream news outlets, you’re likely being lied to by “experts” with a political agenda.
David Pyne, owner of The Real War Newsletter, is my most trusted advisor on geopolitics. He has no political agenda and will print the truth, wherever it leads. David currently serves alongside me as Deputy Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. He previously served as Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor to 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and National Security Policy Director for U.S. Sen. Mike Lee.
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Task Force on National &
Homeland Security
Chief Architect
Most Architects have no experience creating home structures to function after a grid down scenario. Having an architect that understands how to formalize Jonathan Hollerman’s survival retreat designs into action is critical. I have been using Jim Escobar as my primary architect for over a decade.
Jim is a licensed architect with 30+ years experience in a wide array of markets. In 2008, he founded and grew a successful architecture firm that served projects across the country before selling the company in 2021. Today, James focuses on select specialty projects, combining his passion for architecture, survival-minded design, and collaborative design-build leadership.
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