Shane “Doc K” Kerwin is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier whose career placed him at a unique intersection of two disciplines central to Tactical Anatomy: precision marksmanship and combat medicine.

Shane entered the Army in 1993, first serving at the Joint Security Area along the Korean DMZ. His time with the DMZ Scout Platoon sparked an interest in small, specialized units and eventually led him to the 82nd Airborne Division, where he worked in reconnaissance and sniper operations.

In 1999, Shane was selected for Special Forces training and later earned the 18D Special Forces Medical Sergeant specialty. After graduating in 2002, he joined 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), where he would spend the next 16 years serving in a variety of operational, medical, leadership, and instructional roles.

Throughout his career with 5th Group, Shane served as a Special Forces Medical Sergeant, Company Senior Medical Sergeant, Detachment Operations Sergeant (Team Sergeant), and instructor for the Special Operations Target Interdiction Course (SOTIC). He completed seven deployments in support of the Global War on Terror, worked alongside Naval Special Operations forces in the Middle East, and conducted additional missions throughout Asia and Central America.

His military education included the Special Operations Combat Medic Course, Special Forces Medical Sergeant Course, Ranger School, SERE-C, Special Forces sniper training, SOTIC, advanced urban-combat training, and jumpmaster qualification.

That background gave Shane extensive experience with two sides of the same problem: placing rounds precisely where they need to go and understanding what happens physiologically when they get there.

After retiring from the Army, Shane continuedstraining in the private sector with organizations and instructors including Rangemaster, ShivWorks, High Ground Training, Agile Training & Consulting, and others. That commitment to remaining a student continues to shape his approach to instruction.

Together with his wife, Calley, Shane founded Personal Survival Solutions to provide realistic, relevant training in defensive handgun, rifle and carbine, shotgun, precision marksmanship, medical response, situational awareness, and personal preparedness. His philosophy centers on building a complete individual protective system that combines awareness, judgment, equipment, medical capability, firearms skills, and the ability to solve the problem actually in front of you.

At the Tactical Anatomy Summit, Shane brings that same systems-based approach to understanding the human body. Tactical Anatomy is not simply memorizing where organs are located or drawing smaller aiming points on a target. Students must understand three-dimensional anatomy, body orientation, angles, intervening structures, physiological effects, and the marksmanship required to apply that knowledge to a target that may be moving, turned, obscured, or positioned differently than a conventional range silhouette.

Shane’s background allows him to connect anatomy, medicine, precision marksmanship, and operational problem-solving in a way that is understandable and applicable to armed citizens, law-enforcement officers, and firearms instructors alike.

That combination of Special Forces medicine, tactical leadership, precision shooting, operational experience, and continued professional training makes Shane “Doc K” Kerwin a uniquely valuable part of the Tactical Anatomy Summit instructor cadre.

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