Instructors

Wayne DuBois

Wayne DuBois – A law enforcement administrator with more than 25 years of law enforcement experience and active SWAT team member for 23 years. 

During his career, Wayne has responded to, supervised, or been in command of hundreds of SWAT operations, including high risk warrant service, barricaded suspects, armed suicidal subjects, and hostage situations.  Prior to law enforcement, Wayne served 4 years on active duty as a ground surveillance systems operator in the U.S. Army, including deployment to Southwest Asia for 6 months during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.  Currently he is an Undersheriff at a Northwest Montana Sheriff’s Office and SWAT Incident Commander for a large regional SWAT team in his region. Wayne received the Medal of Valor for actions taken during a SWAT Operation and was named SWAT Officer of the Year and Police Officer of the Year by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. Wayne serves as a Western Region Director and instructor for the premier non-profit tactical officers association in the nation. He is a certified force science analyst and instructor in multiple disciplines related to tactics and SWAT.  Additionally, Wayne is a certified emotional intelligence coach.  He has also had two published articles on SWAT procedures and operations in a national publication, “The Tactical Edge.”  Wayne holds a M.A. in Executive Leadership from Liberty University.  

Travis Gribble

Travis Gribble is a retired sergeant from Mesa Police Department in Arizona, a city of 520,000 and 850 sworn officers. His career has spanned 24 years, spending 11 years in Michigan before lateralling to Arizona for another 13 years. During the course of his career he spent 16 years in SWAT, both in a part-time capacity and full-time capacity for 9 years. While in Michigan he was tasked with standing up a regional team in his county, creating standard operating procedures, establishing testing and training requirements, procuring equipment, and finally operating as the team commander. After moving to Arizona he tested and made the full-time SWAT team, which is tasked with nearly 300 operations per year, conservatively estimating to have given him the experience of operating on over 1500 operations. During his course of service with Mesa SWAT he had the pleasure to serve as both Assistant Team Leader and Team Leader. He has organized and facilitated annual basic SWAT schools, hostage rescue schools, and regional team training events. He is an instructor for all basic SWAT tactics, hostage rescue instructor, immediate action team instructor, active shooter instructor, live-fire house instructor, firearms instructor, and explosive/mechanical breacher. He specializes in mission planning, hostage rescue, barricaded subjects, violent offender apprehension, narcotic operations overwatch, and immediate action teams.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor has 15 years law enforcement experience a medium sized agency in the Southeast side of Washington State, where he serves as a patrol Sergeant.  For 14 years he has been assigned to the Tri-City Regional SWAT team, and is currently the Team Commander.  Sgt. Taylor has been the primary use of force instructor for both the team and his agency, and holds instructor certificates in a number of topics.  For 11 years he was an instructor for both Basic and Advanced SWAT schools for the Washington State and served on the board of directors for the Washington State Tactical Officers Association (WSTOA), holding the positions of Director of Training, Vice President, and President.   He has twice been selected to the National Tactical Officers Associations (NTOA) Tactical Response and Operations Standards committee.  Prior to Law Enforcement Sgt. Taylor attended Washington State University where he played on the golf program as a scholarship athlete.  After graduation he played professional golf until he decided to pressure a career in Law Enforcement. 

Alan Brooks

A law enforcement Sergeant with more than 15 years of law enforcement experience and active SWAT team member for 13 years.

Currently, Alan is the Commander of the Northwest Montana Drug Task Force and a team leader for the Northwest Montana SWAT Team. Alan has worked as a patrol deputy, Field Training Officer and has spent a large portion of his career in investigations where he has worked all types of major crimes. Prior to his current role as Commander of the drug task force, Alan was a task force officer assigned to Homeland Security, working internet crimes against children and human trafficking.

Alan presently serves as a team leader for the Northwest Montana Regional SWAT Team; he has been a member since 2009. Prior to being a team leader, Alan was a sniper and sniper team leader. Alan holds certifications in Crisis Negotiations, Explosive Breaching, Advanced Swat, and Sniper. Alan previously was a board member of the MSTOA board and a current member of the MSPOA SWAT Primary teaching cadre.

When creating professional development, he utilizes a holistic training philosophy. Throughout his teaching career, Alan has demonstrated the application and need for continued physical, mental and emotional development. He is a certified EI coach in EQ-I 2.0/EQ 360 from the Fearless Leaders Group.

In addition to his law enforcement career, Alan has participated in leadership development in the Private sector. Alan is involved with an international leadership group called, Becoming Man (IAM4), and has been a client and coach with them since 2018.

Alan resides in northwest Montana with his wife of 18 years and two children, where they are all

actively participate in sports and recreation.

Ben Millam

Ben Milam has been a full-time law enforcement officer since 2009 and has been an active member of the SWAT Team since 2013. 

He was promoted to Sergeant in 2018, and now serves as a Patrol Sergeant in a moderate sized agency in southcentral Montana. 

As a patrol officer, he was a primary FTO as well as Firearms Instructor. Upon receiving his promotion in 2018, he took over the Firearms program and began serving as the Lead Firearms SGT and Rangemaster.  During his time in patrol, Ben was awarded Officer of the Year (2014) and Supervisor of the Year (2021).

Currently, his primary assignments include Patrol SGT, Team Leader for the SWAT Team, and Lead Firearms Instructor.  In his over 10 years of experience on the SWAT team, Ben has held roles of Explosive Breacher, Sniper, Assistant TL, and TL. 

He holds instructor certificates in a number of specialties and has helped develop many training programs for his agency and region.

Ben served as a board member for MSTOA and is a current member of the MSPOA Instructor Cadre.

Moses Jaraysi

Moses Jaraysi has 40 years of experience in the fields of civil engineering, construction, environmental engineering, cleanup strategy development and negotiation, and executive management. Moses spent 10 years in construction management positions in multi-million-dollar major projects, such as the construction of Kuwait City Waterfront, Kuwait Telecommunication Tower, and Kuwait Disney Land project. In the last 30 years, Moses Led the development and execution of the cleanup of radioactive waste sites. He developed and negotiated Cleanup Strategies with the Federal Government, State, USEPA, and Tribal Nations. As an executive manager, he led the development of multi-discipline professional staff implementing advanced leadership approaches. 

Moses obtained his Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of West Minister, London, UK, in 1980, and his Masters Degree in Science in Management and Leadership from Western Governors University in 2019.  Moses is also a certified Emotional Intelligence coach.