Keynote Speaker; Certified Instructor & Actual Active Shooter Event Neutralization
Randall Breaux
Randall is an ALERRT certified “Active Shooter Instructor” and has been certified in Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Randall’s career highlights include being honored with an “Award of Valor" at DEA HQ in Washington D.C. for neutralizing an Active Shooter in Covington, LA while off duty in 2006, a “wow factor” story in itself. He is proud of this distinction as being one of very few certified Active Shooter Instructors who has “actually” stopped an Active Shooter and saved lives.
Randall started his law enforcement/security career in the United States Air Force in 1980 where he served in Security Police as a specialist and as a trainer before joining the DEA. He retired from the Air Force Reserves as a Security Specialist in 2003 with 22 years. He started his career as a Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1996, he received extensive training and has years of real-world and worldwide experience in all aspects of firearms training, CQB tactics, interviewing, informant management, undercover investigations, and high-risk operations & planning. Randall has a vast amount of experience in conducting high-level Domestic and International Narcotics investigations and operations. He has trained and worked operationally with state and local Law Enforcement, Dept of Defense and Dept of State assets, as well as with foreign U.S. counterparts in the war on drugs and terrorism.
Extensive Global Training Experience
He has worked in several foreign countries including the Bahamas, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia to include helicopter and marine operations. Randall trained with Special Forces units in firearms and tactics while also working closely with them in field operations. He is a graduate of the DEA Instructor Development Course and served in the position of DEA Division Training Coordinator for 3 years prior to his recent retirement in 2019 with 23 years as a DEA Agent. His most recent employment experience is as a Contract Instructor at the Saudi Arabia General Directorate of Narcotics Control Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Randall instructs on numerous topics including Active Shooter Awareness & Response, Basic TacMed, Officer Survival and Crisis Incident Management, Operational Planning, Community Outreach and various other counternarcotics and Law Enforcement subjects. He also currently travels worldwide as a staff instructor with the Dept. Of State’s Global Anti-Terrorism Training Assistance Program in conducting courses for foreign law enforcement.
In the Air Force, Randall was selected as the Team Leader for the Air National Guard worldwide “Peacekeeper Challenge” competition team in 1986 and was also a member of Air Force One security at Andrews Air Force Base from 1997 – 2001. In 2013 Randall accepted a 2 yr posting with DEA in Kabul, Afghanistan where he worked with U.S. Military and Dept of State forces, as well as an Afghan Specialized Narcotics Paramilitary Unit in pursuit of drug traffickers, insurgents and other evil men in that country.
Sean Montgomery
Associate Instructor
Sean Montgomery began his law enforcement career as a Military Policeman in the United States Marine Corps (USMC). Sean’s first three and a half years with the Marine Corps was deploying with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), as part of America’s Force in Readiness. In this capacity, he trained extensively with U.S. allies across Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Middle East, and South/Central America. He completed his time in The Corps, as the Team Leader of the Special Reaction Team (SRT), at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA. Sean is a top performer with 26 plus years as a Special Agent (SA), with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He has extensive experience directing operations involving large groups for local and international drug related law enforcement. Following graduation as the “Outstanding Student” from the DEA Basic Agent Academy at Quantico, VA, he was able to choose his first duty station, which was Richmond, VA.
Over the next 15 years, Sean initiated and led numerous complex investigations tying into other DEA investigations in the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean. Several of his investigations also targeted violent Richmond, VA based drug trafficking organizations. These investigations led to multiple U.S. Attorney’s Office Awards for Public Service, as well as DEA Outstanding Performance Awards. Following the Attacks of September 11, 2001, Sean volunteered to attend specialized training conducted by the Federal Air Marshal Service and served as a Federal Air Marshal for a brief time. From 2011 to 2013, Sean again volunteered, and was assigned to the Kabul, Afghanistan Country Office of the DEA. After specialized training received from U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF), he mentored and led 15 members of Afghanistan’s DEA sponsored Sensitive Investigations Unit (SIU). This mission included targeting large scale international drug trafficking organizations supporting the Taliban and insurgency, and developing our host nation counterparts to become independent of DEA and Coalition partners. After serving in Afghanistan, Sean returned to the DEA’s Richmond, VA District Office until his retirement in 2022. Some of Sean’s specialized training includes the National Rifle Association’s Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor Course, Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), U.S. Army SRT Basic Course, USMC SRT Level II Training Course, and USMC Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Course, specialized pre- deployment Afghanistan training with U.S. Special Forces as well as various other DEA training courses.