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TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
2025 Oct 18, 2:43pm
TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
2025 Oct 18, 2:43pm
Captain (and Commodore) Ed Gallrein served as a senior military officer in the Navy SEALs. Ed is a decorated combat veteran, a retired career Senior Navy SEAL Officer, and is Army Ranger qualified. His military career spanned three decades on active duty, and another decade as a senior advisor to U.S. Government Officials on formulating strategy and operational plans to achieve U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security objectives.
Ed Gallrein is the President of the Underwater Demolition Team-SEAL Association’s Mid-South Chapter (essentially alumni association for SEAL Team veterans, which includes Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas). He plays a leadership role in steering the UDT-SEAL Association’s efforts to support veterans and their families, including Gold Star Families in the area as well as fundraising for programs that serve them.
Ed is also the area Ambassador, for the SEAL Veterans Foundation.
During his career, Ed was screened, selected, and assigned four times as a Commander and three times as an Officer-In-Charge across seven SEAL Teams/Unit assignments, where he planned, led, and conducted sensitive special activities and classified operations around the globe, including combat operations. (Some of those assignments were at Special Mission Units who have critical sensitive missions assigned to them.)
Ed is a highly decorated Combat Veteran: He earned three Bronze Stars, two Presidential Unit Citations (each equivalent to a Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy), multiple Combat Action and Campaign ribbons, and the Army Combat Parachute Badge with Bronze Star, as well as numerous other personal and unit awards.
After his active-duty career, Ed was recruited to serve for another nearly another decade as a senior advisor to assist senior U.S. Government Leaders formulate strategy and develop operational plans to achieve U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security objectives.
Additionally, Ed is a graduate of the War College with Distinction (honors), a top-level school for senior military officers to prepare them for senior leadership positions and to think and act strategically as leaders.
Ed Gallrein is the President of the Underwater Demolition Team-SEAL Association’s Mid-South Chapter (essentially alumni association for SEAL Team veterans, which includes Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas). He plays a leadership role in steering the UDT-SEAL Association’s efforts to support veterans and their families, including Gold Star Families in the area as well as fundraising for programs that serve them.
Ed is also the area Ambassador, for the SEAL Veterans Foundation.
During his career, Ed was screened, selected, and assigned four times as a Commander and three times as an Officer-In-Charge across seven SEAL Teams/Unit assignments, where he planned, led, and conducted sensitive special activities and classified operations around the globe, including combat operations. (Some of those assignments were at Special Mission Units who have critical sensitive missions assigned to them.)
Ed is a highly decorated Combat Veteran: He earned three Bronze Stars, two Presidential Unit Citations (each equivalent to a Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy), multiple Combat Action and Campaign ribbons, and the Army Combat Parachute Badge with Bronze Star, as well as numerous other personal and unit awards.
After his active-duty career, Ed was recruited to serve for another nearly another decade as a senior advisor to assist senior U.S. Government Leaders formulate strategy and develop operational plans to achieve U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security objectives.
Additionally, Ed is a graduate of the War College with Distinction (honors), a top-level school for senior military officers to prepare them for senior leadership positions and to think and act strategically as leaders.
Ed and his wife Heather both grew up on farms in Kentucky: Ed grew up on a family dairy farm, while his wife, Heather, grew up on a beef cattle farm.
Like so many, Ed learned how to drive a tractor long before he could (legally) drive a farm truck on the road (as did his wife, Heather!).
Ed thrived on his family farm and mastered all aspects of the enterprise. In fact, Ed was Vice President of Gallrein Grain Farms and Gallrein Trucking before being accepted into the Navy Officer ranks and completing SEAL training.
Ed’s farm-life work ethic is reflected in the five college degrees he earned – including undergraduate and graduate degrees in agriculture, and three more master’s degrees in financial management, military intelligence, and strategic studies. Ed recognizes the value of learning and education and is a life-long-learner.
Ed’s education included Centre College and Murray State for undergraduate studies, focusing on agriculture, and he played intercollegiate football at both schools. He was completing his master’s degree studies in Agriculture and was on his way to law school to serve farmers and rural Kentucky.
Ed and his wife Heather own and operate The Circle G Farm & Stables in Shelby County. Their stable provides care and services for the horses boarded at their farm. Their farm also produces grass-fed beef for consumers as well as hay for the local cattle and equestrian communities.
Additionally, and like many farm families, they engage in the common practice of cooperation and “trading-out” with their family at close-by Gallrein Farms of Shelby County.
Ed and Heather are also both active in the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Association, and members of the Kentucky Soybean Growers and Kentucky Corn Growers Association.