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The Targeting Cycle: F3EA for Good Deeds in Bad Places.  It's the method that changed modern warfare, rebuilt to fight addiction, trafficking, poverty, and trauma in your own community.

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Cover of The Targeting Cycle: F3EA for Good Deeds in Bad Places, an Owen Army training by Ben Owen
Ben and Jessica Owen
Ben and Jess Owen.
Who we are

Two junkies who came back.

I'm Ben Owen.  My wife Jess and I walked out of addiction with a prayer and a promise.

"God, get us out of hell, and we'll come back for everyone we left behind."

We kept it.  We started We Fight Monsters in South Memphis with folding tables, hot food, and consistency.  Today we fight trafficking and addiction alongside task forces, prosecutors, and courts.

What we've done

Good deeds in bad places.

Ben Owen with three uniformed police officers

At home

  • 350+ people off the street, through detox, rehab, and sober living, and back into the workforce.
  • 60+ trafficking recoveries.
  • 6 dope houses and a brothel taken back.
  • 12+ domestic violence escape flights.
  • Three days in the Tenderloin in San Francisco hunting for a missing girl.  We found her.
Ben and Jess Owen at the Center for Countering Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Around the world

  • Through Flanders Fields, we serve homeless veterans and the Afghan allies who were left behind.
  • We spent thirteen months searching for a Marine veteran killed in Ukraine, and helped bring him home to his wife and daughter.
  • I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
  • I've been a guest of the West Wing to meet with the Homeland Security Council.
  • I've been a guest on the Shawn Ryan Show twice.
What's in the manual

Five phases.  One wheel.

In the original cycle, the target is a person.  In ours, the target is never a person.  The target is suffering itself.

FindLocate the suffering with precision.  Which corner, which house, which family.
FixConfirm the picture.  Catch the window while it's open.
FinishEnd the suffering with the person, never to them.
ExploitEvery finish gives you the map, the messenger, and the soldier.
AnalyzeMake the next turn of the wheel smarter than the last.

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Dangerous men.  Good deeds.