Bart Combs

Interview

Bart Combs is the founder and President of SOLKOA Inc., a discreet mid-market security services firm that has trained and prepared more than 24,000 at-risk travelers from the public and private sector in situational awareness, personal resilience and self-recovery. A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Mr. Combs has been an Army Special Warfare Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Escape (SERE) instructor since 1985. Prior to retiring in 2004 from the Army’s Special Operations Command as a Lieutenant Colonel, including 6 years of operational service with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – DELTA, (aka Delta Force) he was recognized as the Army’s most senior subject matter expert in global Personnel Recovery (PR) and SERE, having developed numerous training programs and contingency plans for the highest tiers of the Department of Defense and its strategic interagency partners. His operational experience spans 37 years and across six continents, both on the ground as well as a special operations rotary wing and fixed wing pilot. A distinguished graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Mr. Combs also holds a Masters of Business Administration degree.