Shawn Ryan Show
#173 Jared Hudson - The War Against Evil: A Navy SEAL’s Fight to Save Children in America
Wed, 19 Feb 2025
Jared Hudson served as a SEAL Operator and sniper with Naval Special Warfare, with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He founded The Shooting Institute (TSI), providing tactical training to law enforcement, military, and civilians, and Covenant Rescue Group (CRG), a nonprofit combating human trafficking and child exploitation through operations, training, and advocacy. Hudson is also a Reserve SWAT Deputy in Alabama and an advocate for constitutional rights. Hudson is an author of "Waging War in the High Places - The Armor of God through the Eyes of a Navy SEAL" and speaks nationwide on faith-based topics. He is a devoted Christian, husband, father of three, and he emphasizes family values and community engagement. He currently leads CRG's efforts to rescue trafficking victims globally while raising awareness about exploitation networks through public speaking and media appearances. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: http://cozyearth.com/srs http://preparewithshawn.com http://helixsleep.com/srs http://amac.us/srs http://meetfabric.com/shawn http://drinkhoist.com/ | Use Code SRS This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. Jared Hudson Links: Website - https://www.thejaredhudson.com/ Covenant Rescue Group - https://www.covenantrescue.org/about-us The Shooting Institute - https://www.theshootinginstitute.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jaredhudson_seal/ Please leave us a review on Apple & Spotify Podcasts. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website | Patreon | TikTok | Instagram | Download Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Jared Hudson and what is his mission?
Jared Hudson, welcome to the show, man. Hey, thanks for having me, brother. Man, I can't believe we're just chatting. So we've been connected for like two years. Yeah, at least two years. I didn't realize it had been that long. Yeah. So Eddie Gallagher connected us.
I remember him texting me saying that you were a super good dude and that you're going after a lot of these pedophiles and human traffickers. And, man, that's just a subject that –
you know it just doesn't it does never it never gets enough attention and um so and it's some heavy so nobody wants to hear it um but they need to hear it and so we're gonna crank this out but but uh former navy seal former law enforcement running the nonprofit, running a tactics company. I'll give you a proper introduction here shortly. And man of faith.
I mean, you're just pumping out so much good into the world. And one of the few out there fighting literally the most evil shit that you can gin up. And that just...
god bless you brother well thank you man i appreciate it yeah thanks for having me it's an honor to be here man i love to see what you got going and your growth over the last few years i mean this is this is huge i don't think anybody knows it because not a lot of people see it but From showing up here till now, I mean, it is, you've got a process, bro. I mean, you've got it worked out.
So it's actually a very professional, not just interview, but build a relationship, and then you sit down for the interview. So very impressed, brother. Thank you. Not that it means much, but I'm impressed. That means the world to me.
Thank you for saying that.
Yeah, no worries. I do want to give you something before we start. You've already given me a lot of gifts, but this is from the team at Covenant Rescue Group.
Oh, cool.
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Chapter 2: How did Jared Hudson transition from Navy SEAL to anti-trafficking advocate?
We'll get there. We'll get to all that, the combat elements. So you get through sniper school. How'd you graduate?
Top of the class? No, no, definitely not top of the class. A guy named Brian Clayton was at the top of our class. I think he got the gun. He did great. I actually did pretty good on the stalks. I stalked one day in just a flannel jacket and a Pair of blue jeans. It stalked all the way up, stalked around the instructor's little thing there and set up.
You know, so I did good on the stalks because it's pretty flipping easy. I mean, if you can stalk up on a deer with a bow in the woods, you know, that's what I was doing in Alabama and I kind of slipped behind trees, find a spot, jump them, climb up, shoot a deer. If you can do that, you can stalk up on a bunch of flipping teen guys with binos. I mean, that's easy. And so it was stalking around.
But that being said, I didn't, I'm maybe middle of the class, you know, is where I was. I was not – it's funny how the Lord works. I go in, oh, yeah, man, I can shoot. I'm going to use all this arrogance of who I am and how great I am and all this. I grew up in the woods shooting, and then all of a sudden you realize, no, I suck compared to these guys.
But, yeah, I think Brian graduated top of our class. There was a lot of good dudes in our class. But I graduated, and that – That's where I decided to have been dating my wife for a little while at the time. And graduation day, the family all comes. You can have family up, friends up, whatever. They all come up, shoot sniper rifles. It was a fun time. I invited my dad, my brothers, and her dad.
And me and him were fishing in Troy's pond. And I'm back fishing. And that's where I said, hey, I want to ask Lauren to marry me. Can I ask your daughter to marry me? And he said, you're going to have to ask her about that, son. But after this weekend, it's perfectly fine with me. He said they weren't out fishing. He loved the guns and the fishing. That's awesome. How'd you meet your wife?
My dad being a pastor, her grandparents went to their church. And we kind of knew of each other through that. And then my brother and his wife hooked us up on like a blind date one time when I came home on leave. I came back from that Iraq, Germany thing that I told you about. I came home and they kind of hooked us up on a blind date and we hit it off and started dating.
And six months later, I was asking her dad to, if I could, eight months later, I was asking her dad if I could ask her to marry me. Nice. Nice. You guys have been married ever since? Yeah, we've been married 16 years. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you.
Made it through the SEAL teams.
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Chapter 4: How does Jared Hudson's faith influence his life and work?
We've got to be able to do our sex trafficking operations program training with y'all and set up an op and make y'all run it. And that's how we started doing that. So that was the Lord. How hard was that to sell? Not hard with the tactical training. And then it was about a year worth of that.
So your model, you gift a law enforcement agency a one-day training package. And the only thing they have to do in return is give you access to... Let us do the child exploitation training.
Their jurisdiction. Yep, their jurisdiction. We do the child exploitation training with them, and we're not making arrests or prosecutions. We bring the prosecutor's office in. We say, guys, this is how you set up these types of ops. We help them set up that op, and they run that op with our oversight. It's like a ground branch type of model where you got... It's what you were doing at BS...
That's exactly it. VSO operations. Combat advisor. That's exactly right. And so that's what we do. That's what we still do.
Fucking genius, man. So you get in, you make friends with them, and then you teach them, you take them on an op, you turn it over. This is how you do it. That's it.
And so one of the agencies we first started with, we made— 11 arrests with them initially when we were there. No, no, no, that's not true. We made 19 arrests with this agency initially when we were there. They're making it over two nights of operations. We gave them the tactical training and all that. And they have done, I want to say, six operations on their own now. Maybe it's four.
This is a couple years ago. But they've arrested like 190 people doing these operations.
190? Yeah, yeah.
190.
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