Neil “Neilly” Davis QCVS, is a  former undercover soldier with a covert “Special Duties” unit (FRU/JSG) of British Intelligence.

He worked undercover, in one of the worlds most hostile, and surveillance-aware, environments, with the sole purpose of infiltrating terrorist organisations.

In 2006, he was awarded the Queens Commendation for Valuable Service (QCVS), for his personal contribution to UK counter-terrorist operations.

During his somewhat “colorful” career, he has been involved in covert, direct action and irregular warfare operations in Northern Ireland, The Caribbean, Iraq, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Libya, Sri Lanka and West Africa.

Neil was eventually recruited by the US government in Afghanistan, as an Agent Handler, to recruit and run covert HUMINT sources, providing exploitative and actionable, “Live” intelligence, in support of US Army Units (101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, 10th Mountain Division, and the OD-A), in the Zhari, Maiwand, Panjwai and Arghandab Districts, of Kandahar Province.

Neil’s passion is in providing realistic, functional, and “messy” tactical training that provides people with workable and flexible response “options”. He has little time for those who teach carefully choreographed drills, preferring to allow his scenarios and live firing exercises to take their natural course and for trainees to “figure it out” by themselves.

Neil has a wealth of experience working in small 2-man, covert teams or as a lone operator, in numerous towns and cities around the world, living amongst the people he was working against, relying solely on his training and his natural ability to talk his way out of most situations, under intense pressure and with an ever-present risk of compromise, and it is from these experiences that the Go Noisy USA, Street Scene System of Training (SSST) concept, was conceived.