Neil Davis is a 24-year, British Army Veteran, and a former undercover soldier with a covert “Special Duties” unit of British Intelligence, where he planned and conducted, sensitive and covert, counter-terrorist operations, in various countries around the world and for which he was awarded the Queens Commendation for Valuable Service (QCVS), for his personal contribution to UK counter-terrorist operations.

Since leaving the military in 2006, Neil has been involved in covert, counter-terrorist, low-profile/covert, close protection and anti-poaching operations in Iraq, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Libya, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Turkey and the USA.

Teaming up with a former member of the Portuguese Special Branch, he organised, planned, and conducted covert counter-terrorist operations in Sri Lanka, against the LTTE over a 3-year period, on behalf of a western government organisation. Their collaborative intelligence reports were used in the subsequent UN Dossier addressing “War Crimes and Human Rights Violations” submitted to the Sri Lankan Government in 2012.
Neil then went to work for the US government in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, and spent 5 years, planning, and conducting covert, counter-terrorist operations, in support of US Army Units such as 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain Division, providing exploitative and actionable, “Live” intelligence, in support of on-going military operations in the Zhari, Maiwand, Panjwai and Arghandab Districts, of Kandahar Province.
He set up Go Noisy with his partner and co-owner, Tsarina Youhnovska, in 2018, for the sole purpose of using this hard-earned knowledge and experience, as an undercover soldier, to shape and deliver realistic, flexible, and “messy” tactical training, that was reflective of the situations that he had found himself in, during his career and to prepare others for those types of situations.

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.

He has a wealth of experience working, either in a small team or as a lone operator, in numerous countries, cities and villages around the world in non-permissive operational environments, under intense pressure and with an ever-present risk of compromise, capture and interrogation.

He has many years of instructional experience and was an Infantry Tactics Instructor at the British Army’s Infantry Training Centre, ITC Wales (Brecon). Neil has delivered various types of specialised training such as close protection, surveillance, HUMINT, firearms, anti-poaching, hostile environment and hostage survival, to foreign police forces, military, government bodies, organisations, and individuals, around the world.

He also, currently, delivers scenario-based Advisory Training for senior NATO staff officers at NATO training headquarters, Poland as part of their pre-deployment training to Afghanistan (now terminated) and Iraq.
In 2015, Neil embarked on an unsupported and solo, Walk Across America, to raise awareness of PTSD amongst American and British soldiers and veterans. When he reached Pennsylvania, he suffered serious and incapacitating injuries, including the on-set of sepsis and a strangulated hernia and was admitted to hospital, until he was able to return to the UK, for further medical treatment and surgery. It is something that he intends to go back and do again.

Neil has also appeared on the Channel 4 Series, “Hunted” and was an advisor on the US TV Series “The Feed”, which was released in 2019. He has also choreographed and delivered bespoke firearms training for members of the Film and TV Industry.