Steven “Brown Bear” is a retired Navy SEAL. During his career he served as the Senior Enlisted Adviser at Naval Special Warfare Basic Training Command Detachment Kodiak. He trained and mentored SEAL teammates, the command staff, other special operation forces and over 1000 SEAL Qualification Training students in mountaineering, survival, land navigation, over the beach operations, cold weather, nutrition and first aid, fitness, and avalanche awareness in this austere remote Alaskan environment. As a result, Steven was awarded the title Master Training Specialist. While assigned to Naval Special Warfare Development Group Steven made numerous deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, tallying over 250 combat operations, for his actions he was awarded the Silver Star and many other individual awards. Now Steven can focus on his passion, the outdoors, and it brings him the highest level of satisfaction seeing others enjoying their experience with him.