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Lynn Westover
Lynn “Sherpa” Westover served 12 years as an Infantryman, Force Reconnaissance Team Leader, and Scout Sniper in the Marine Corps. He taught human behavior pattern recognition to members of the Special Operations Communities such as NSW, and Special Forces. After his Fox Co. BLT 2/8 tour, Lynn became a Reconnaissance Marine, completing four combat tours, 2 in Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan, from 2002 to 2007 at the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion. He then earned his Master Instructor Certification at the Reconnaissance Center of Excellence as a Basic Reconnaissance Instructor (BRC), where he was instrumental in developing the Reconnaissance Team Leaders Course. Lynn was also responsible for implementing the Combat Hunter program into the curriculum of BRC. From 2010 to 2012, Lynn was stationed at Force Company II MEF, Okinawa, Japan, where he deployed with the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion as a Force Recon Team Leader in Upper Sangin Valley, Helmand Province of Afghanistan. After leaving the Marine Corps in 2012, Lynn became an Advanced Situational Awareness Instructor teaching ASAT, IT-SAT, and SOFSAT to Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, British, Italian, Polish, and Spanish Forces. Lynn spent three months in Afghanistan unarmed and embedded, teaching Insider Threat Situational Awareness. https://slcsquared.link/stlcpd https://slcsquared.link/tpf