Muhammad Bilal

Brother Shadow (Muhammad Bilal) is the founder of Shadow Protective Services - SPS500, a former Executive Protection and Armed Security service provider with offices in the Fayetteville/Fort Bragg, NC - Atlanta, GA - Washington D.C. metropolitan areas. With over 35 years of combined experience in military, diplomatic protection, celebrity bodyguard & armed security services, as a former Private Investigator he specialized in tactical education and security consultant services.

Shadow has visited numerous sites in the Holy Lands of southwest Asia & north Afrika (the “Middle East”); been inside the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, climbed to the top of Moses Mountain & saw the Burning Bush in the Sinai Desert, swam in the Red Sea and stood on the exact same spot up on Mount Olives in Jerusalem, Israel - that many people believe Joshua Ben Yosef (Jesus Christ) was crucified and ascended into heaven from.

As a military combat veteran, his 20+ year career includes both the U.S. Army’s exclusive Sergeant Audie Murphy & Sergeant Morales clubs. The “Leadership Award Recipient” of his Infantry Advanced Senior Noncommissioned Officer Course (ANCOC) Class, inducted into the SETAF (Airborne) Hall of Honor for “Leadership” and the National Infantry Association’s “Order of Saint Maurice” CENTURION AWARD. A master level instructor who has taught at many levels of military education.

Airborne Infantry Fire Team Leader (6th Infantry Division) Fort Richardson, Alaska

Airborne Infantry Rifle Squad Leader (82nd Airborne Division) Fort Bragg, NC.

Airborne Infantry Platoon Sergeant (173rd Airborne Brigade) Vicenza, Italy.

Bilal is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Assessment & Selection (SFAS), the Special Forces Qualification “Q” Course (SFQC) as an 18B Weapons Sergeant “Green Beret” and the SOF military foreign language school.

Shadow has served in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and Operation NEW DAWN in the Middle East for over 5 years as a Personal Protection Specialist PSS (Armed Security Contractor) protecting prominent & top-level U.S. Diplomats in a “High Threat” combat environment, culminating with service on the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq’s Protective Detail (APD).

Bilal has trained agents and armed security professionals who deployed to the Republican National Convention (RNC2016) in Cleveland, Ohio and the Democratic National Convention (DNC2016) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He recently provided daily direct security consultant services for a major U.S. Presidential Election Candidate during the 2020 election campaign cycle. Provided safety, security & protection related services during the U.S. Presidential Inauguration for the current administration in Washington, D.C.

Shadow previously appeared in the weekly reality action television series “HUNTED” on CBS with co-stars who are former members of the FBI, CIA, U.S. Marshals, Navy Seals and other government agencies. Is highly sought after for Dynamic Motivational Speaking Engagements, Security Consulting and Executive Protection. As an avid chess player, he enjoys his military retirement with his family in the Fayetteville/Fort Bragg, North Carolina area.

He hopes you will enjoy reading his books:

BLACK MAN GREEN BERET

The Semi-autobiography of Brother Shadow (2018)

The Worldwide Adventures of Brother Shadow

*Season 1: AFRIKA & THE MIDDLE EAST (2021)

*Season 2: EUROPE (2022)

*Season 3: ASIA (2022)

*Season 4: AMERICA, NORTH, SOUTH & CENTRAL (2023)

BROTHER SHADOW'S SELF-DEFENSE FOR WOMEN

Oh, That's What You Were Talking About!?! (2024)

BROTHER SHADOW'S MILITARY MEMOIRS & WAR STORIES

Mission. Men. Marriage. Me. (2025)