Contact: na_jur@bellsouth.net
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Colonel Jurchenko is a highly decorated combat veteran of 30 years service with the U.S. Army who retired at the rank of full colonel, having served as both an infantry officer and a Military Police Corps officer in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). His postings in the United States have taken him to Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Washington D.C., Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, and Georgia. Additionally, his assignments overseas include Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Germany, Italy, Egypt, and Israel. His undergraduate degree (BA) is from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, where he majored in English and journalism, with minors in philosophy and logic. He has two master's degrees (MA's) from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, one in management and the other in human resource development.
Immediately after retiring from the service, Colonel Jurchenko accepted a position as a Criminal Justice Department chair at a Georgia college in the Atlanta area. Most recently, he has held the positions of Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Director of Homeland Security-Security Risk Interoperability and Threat Assessment (SRITA) Division for a federal defense contractor. He is considered a subject matter expert in the field of terrorism and has a most extensive and complete background in terrorism and anti-terrorism operations, as well as general and specific law enforcement operations, to include homeland security at the state and federal levels. In the criminal justice and law enforcement arena, his specialty is constitutional law, and he is an expert in the fields of physical security, search and seizure, use of force, deadly force, interviews and interrogations, and peace officer liability. Colonel Jurchenko is a published author and has also appeared and assisted in production of American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) and Discovery Channel presentations regarding terrorism, security, and law enforcement. Colonel Jurchenko is Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) qualified and is a POST (Peace Officers Standards and Training Council) certified Georgia peace officer. As a SWAT team commander, he was assigned to support the U.S. Secret Service as part of its White House Personal Security Detail and Executive Protection Operation, which provides personal protective services directly to the president and first family. He has protected every president from Jimmy Carter through George W. Bush.
Go BackAdditionally, Colonel Jurchenko holds a state of Georgia private detective license, and he is also a Certified Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor, ASP baton instructor, defensive tactics (hand-to-hand combat) instructor, riot control instructor, basic life support (BLS - CPR/first aid and AED - automatic external defibrillator) instructor, OC (oleoresin capsicum/pepper spray) instructor, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Modular Emergency Response Radiological Transportation Training (MERRTT) instructor, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) instructor, as well as Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, High Explosive/Improvised Explosive Device (CBRNE/IED) instructor. He has also traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Israel, and undergone training by the Israeli government via the Mossad (Israeli national intelligence agency), the Shin Bet (Israeli Secret Service), the Israeli National Police Force (FBI counterpart), the Aman (Israeli Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol), the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces - Military), and the Israeli National Prison Service (U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons counterpart).
Colonel Jurchenko is employed by Brenau University as the Campus Director of the university's South Atlanta campus, located in Fairburn, Georgia, 35 miles south of Atlanta. Additionally, he is a member of the Executive Board and Accreditation Committee, as well as the Advisory Board of the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security (ABCHS) and is the board's lead CHS-IV and CHS-V instructor/trainer. Additionally, he sits on the Advisory Committee of the United States Security Institute International. Colonel Jurchenko's most significant military awards and decorations include: the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Army Aviation Crewmen Badge, the Bronze Star, the Army Air Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters and "V" Device for Valor in Life Saving Action, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Community Service Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm Leaf, the Vietnamese Pacification Medal, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal with 5 Campaign Stars.
Copyright ©2010 ABCHS - All Rights Reserved