With over 20 years of security and law enforcement experience and 8 years in the U.S. Army, Instructor Smart is very knowledgeable in security-based training. He has taught thousands of soldiers and officers with self-defense techniques, physical training, and less than lethal training, needed to defend themselves while performing their duties. Instructor Smart was a Lieutenant and Commander of the Special Operations Response Team (S.O.R.T) at a Federal Detention Center where he taught correctional staff as well as new recruits in the academy chemical agents, firearms, and self-defense techniques that helped in building the confidence they needed to defend themselves and their co-workers from all situations that involved the use of force.