NCIS | The Real Agency Behind the Stories and TV: Featuring Joe Twilley

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this Legends episode of "Zone 7," Crime Scene Investigator Sheryl McCollum sits down with Joseph Twilley to discuss his career with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), protecting Navy and Marine Corps personnel, and assets around the world through criminal and counterintelligence investigations.

They discuss competitive recruiting and training to become an NCIS special agent, achieving a diversity of backgrounds, and balancing opportunities for service with a strong sense of purpose. Through anecdotes and reflections, listeners will gain a rare glimpse into the challenges and rewards of serving in a federal law enforcement agency dedicated to protecting the Navy and Marine Corps.

Joe Twilley is the Deputy Assistant Director of Recruitment and Retention for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). With a career spanning over 19 years in law enforcement, Twilley has held various critical positions within NCIS, contributing significantly to counterintelligence and criminal investigations. Listeners can learn more about Joe on LinkedIn @Joetwilley.

Show Notes:

[0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
[1:00] Sheryl gives a thorough background of today’s guest, Joe Twilley
[4:45] Question: Can you walk me through a typical day for you?
[7:30] What it takes to be a successful agent
[9:15] Joe speaks to his rewarding experiences working at NCIS
[13:00] What recruiters look for in new agents
[13:25] “The pitfall of your success is going to be the excuse.”
[16:30] The culture and camaraderie in NCIS
[20:00] The Special Agent Afloat program
[27:30] Aircraft carriers contain an entire small city
[31:30] Reflections of Joe’s career
[33:00] “No other agency has so broad and important a mandate. I look forward to being your colleague and to the collective mission. of protecting our way of life. God bless you and God bless the United States of America.” -S.C
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.

You can connect and learn more about Sheryl’s work by visiting the CCIRI website https://coldcasecrimes.org

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Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum

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0:00.0	My daddy was in the Navy.
0:11.2	I know two things about his service.
0:14.5	One, he swam in the ocean on Christmas Day.
0:18.3	He used to love telling us five girls about that because it was never warm enough
0:23.4	anywhere we ever were to swim on Christmas Day. So he loved that, that he was in Hawaii and swam on
0:29.4	Christmas Day. Number two, when he went ashore once and it was time for him to get his tattoo
0:35.3	with all of his buddies, he said that he chose this little bitty rooster on the inside of his calf
0:41.3	so that if he was looking at you straight or you were behind him, you couldn't see it.
0:45.3	But he chose it because it was the smallest sample the guy had on the wall.
0:51.3	That was it. That's what I know. I know he's there during the Cold War,
0:56.0	but I don't know anything else about his service. Y'all've watched the TV show. You know those
1:01.9	crisp white uniforms, the bravery. I'm talking about the Naval Criminal Investigative Service,
1:10.2	NCIS, honey. the federal law enforcement agency
1:14.6	that is responsible for the investigating of felonies, preventing terrorism, and protecting
1:22.0	the secrets of the Navy and the Marine Corps.
1:25.3	NCIS operates y'all in 191 locations in more than 41 countries.
1:34.4	We got the real deal tonight.
1:37.2	Joseph Twilley is a highly respected veteran in law enforcement.
1:41.8	He currently serves as the deputy assistant director to
1:46.6	NCIS at Quantico. He leads the recruitment and retention division. Now he started his career in
1:54.4	criminal justice as a police officer on Maryland's eastern shore. That was like in 2005. Over the last 19 years, Mr. Twilly has held
2:04.5	critical leadership positions, including supervisory special agent of counterintelligence
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