A J PowellAJ is a Christian, a retired United States Army NonCommissioned Officer who served in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army, and he is a world-traveled American combat veteran. During his professional career, AJ has been blessed with opportunities to workat the local, joint, and multinational levels of operations, working closely with U.S. and allied forces in conducting operations, training, development, and relations-building. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, and is published academically in the fields of sociology and leadership. AJ spent 20+ years working in the fields of both aviation and diving simultaneously. He first first learned to dive in 2002, and since that time, has been blessed (or cursed) with assignments and opportunities to dive in some of the most challenging and demanding environments and conditions around the world. Today, AJ is a professional occupational surface-supplied diver to the mixed-gas level, qualified occupational dive supervisor, technical closed-circuit rebreather diver to the hypoxic-trimix level (100m), and certified NAUI and IANTD dive instructor, CCR instructor, and occupational diving instructor. AJ has been teaching professionally as a qualified educator, specialized skills trainer, and certified instructor across a multitude of expertise, for most of his career. As an instructor, he draws extensively on his career-long training and experience, both military and civilian, while incorporating many overlapping aspects from the world of aviation into the world of diving, to mentor and grow his students into highly skilled divers far above the standards. As a result, AJ has developed a reputation for teaching and training both military service members and civilians alike to become well-educated, highly competent, confident, capable, and safe divers, who are passionate about diving and growing in their diver KSA's. Read More Read Less