Staff and Faculty

Larry Jackson is one of the founders and principals of J.H.S.B..

Mr. Jackson's experiences are varied. In 1964, Larry enlisted in the U.S. Navy in San Diego, CA. While in training, Larry showed excellent leadership qualifications and was assigned the duties of platoon leader. After basic training, Larry was recruited for the Underwater Demolitions Teams (UDT). During this training, Larry achieved five percent status and was chosen for the Naval Sea Air and Land (SEAL) program. Larry excelled in all aspects of his SEAL training and after graduating, he went in to the fleet as a SEAL team leader. While SEAL team leader, Larry was responsible for supplemental and upgraded training, specializing in long-range weapons and demolitions, for his teams.

Mr. Jackson's training and leadership abilities were put to use in South Africa and later in southeast Asia, where he led his units to the highest expectations of the Navy.

After leaving the Navy, Larry returned home and worked as a foreman at a local woodworking factory. In 1973, Mr. Jackson became a deputy sheriff for the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department. Larry resigned his full-time position there when he moved into a different county to start his own business, but he still remains as a reserve officer for their search and rescue unit. Mr. Jackson built a trucking company that is still in operation and thriving to present date. In Larry's community, he is a member of the Masons and serves as a senior deacon for his Southern Baptist church.

Through his long and varied career, Mr. Jackson has shown leadership, common sense and responsibility for the people under his charge and the companies for which he works. These are the experience and qualities that Mr. Jackson brings to help make J.H.S.B. a thriving and formidable corporation.

James Wallace - Executive Vice President/Director of Training and Operations

James Wallace is one of the founders and principals of J.H.S.B..

Mr. Wallace has an extensive background in the combat martial arts, special weapons handling and combat tactics dealing with surveillance, infiltration and target elimination techniques, as well as in military and civilian security.

Mr. Wallace used his training in southeast Asia while he was assigned to an international police unit. After six years in southeast Asia, Jim returned to the United States and became an instructor for the United States Marine Corps. He was later assigned to the DEA and completed missions in South America. As his final tour of duty, Mr. Wallace instructed personnel with the DEA, U.S. Customs, U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard in drug law enforcement procedures.

In the civilian world, Mr. Wallace was a nationally registered paramedic and now teaches diverse groups for the American Red Cross. When not teaching for the American Red Cross, he teaches through his own company professional rescue groups in Public Safety Diving, Aquatic Crime Scene Investigation and Elevated Rescue. Jim not only teaches these courses, but is a technical consultant and incident commander for United Response Search and Rescue, a Texas volunteer search and recovery organization.

In the community, Mr. Wallace teaches self-defense, women's self-defense courses and all levels of recreational scuba diving.

Mr. Wallace brings to J.H.S.B. his knowledge, philosophy and experience in teaching.

Kristin DeMoen - Senior Instructor

Ms. DeMoen is currently a level 3 instructor for Crisis Management Corporation, instructing courses from Conflict Management to all level 3 weapons. Kristin also assists with J.H.S.B.'s Fundamentals of Instructor training course for new instructors.

Ms. DeMoen's background and experiences are varied and unique—from instructing corporate executives to working as a Disaster Relief Coordinator in Florida.

Kristin began her training working with local law enforcement, learning the basics of small arms weapons fire, judgmental shooting, use of force (all levels), and traffic stops with arrests. Eventually, she graduated to crime prevention, drug law enforcement, building clearing, hostage negotiations and K-9 handling and operations.

Ms. DeMoen is currently a second degree black belt and senior instructor in her martial arts discipline, and instructs for two schools in her community, focusing on Women's Self-Defense and Crisis Management.

On the humanitarian side, Kristin is an instructor and Disaster Response Technician for the American Red Cross. Ms. DeMoen instructs individual courses in health and safety, all levels of Disaster Response, Crisis Intervention and Management, Terrorist Profiles and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Martin Spears - Senior Instructor

Martin Spears heads our Computer and Electronic Surveillance training division. Mr. Spears' experience varies from radio communications, telephone, computer networking, and satellite systems. In 1992, Spears enrolled in RMC (Royal Military College) in Canada where he received a science degree in physics. Upon graduation Mr. Spears was posted to LCIS where he worked as a communications and security officer. He was trained in data encryption/decryption, and the proper methodology in securing communication systems.

After his discharge from the armed forces in 2002, Mr. Spears worked as a computer network analyst contracted to varied companies, testing and developing new technologies with respect to telephone, television broadcast systems, and high speed Internet.

Mr. Spears started his own company in Canada where he works as a consultant dealing with various forms of data encryption, network security, and electronic storage methods.

Mr. Spears has come to J.H.S.B. with the best credentials and recommendations possible from federal and local law enforcement agencies for his training assistance in computer theft as well as his assistance with their child pornography divisions. The officers believed they benefited from his training in computer security and evaluation, and his training was a key factor leading to arrests and convictions.

Bonnie Deanna Smith - Instructor Level II

Bonnie Deanna Smith comes to J.H.S.B.C with an outstanding background in military police, practical combat experience, and the ability to teach those tactics and experiences. Ms. Smith was on active duty in the U.S. Army for 12 years, serving in the Military Police Corps. After her discharge from active duty, Ms. Smith joined the Army Reserves. One of her duties was to instruct National Guard and Reservists in "Lanes Training."

In 1996, Ms. Smith was promoted to Staff Sergeant and was transferred to the 84th division, where she conducted Advanced Individual Training in Military Police Tactics. After the September 2001 terrorist attacks, Bonnie was sent to Electronic Surveillance school in Huntsville, AL.

In March of 2003, Ms. Smith was deployed to Iraq with the Army reserve unit, South West Division, Dallas, Texas. While in Iraq, Bonnie was in charge of Force Protection-Task Force Restore Iraqi Oil (TF-RIO), the northern field office. Some of Bonnie's duties were to hire, train and assign 12 Iraqis to the Force Protection of 60 U.S. DOD civilians and Halliburton employees.

As Ms. Smith's final duty in Iraq, Bonnie was assigned as officer-in-charge of Force Protection for all TF-RIO employees throughout Iraq. While in the discharge of her duties in Iraq, Bonnie received the BRONZE STAR for her exemplary actions during a RPG attack on the building that housed the offices of the Northern Field Office.

Once returning home, Bonnie took up where she left off; as a shift supervisor for Securitas at the GM metal plant in Indianapolis, IN. Bonnie also holds a ranking in the martial arts discipline of KENPO.