Myke Hawke

Myke Hawke (b. November 29, 1965 in Fort Knox, Kentucky) is the co-founder and director of operations for Specops, an adventure tourism and training company.

Hawke represented SpecOps on "MTV Road Rules" in 1999 and was a consultant for "Fear Factor" in 2001. He was a subject matter expert in survival, warfare, leadership, medicine and special operations for TV shows such "Tactical to Practical", "Healthcops", and "Britain's Worst and Forever Eden". He appeared in the 2006 movie "Dirty Sanchez" as Hawke. In 2006, he filmed an episode of the Discovery Channel's "" in which he taught survival in the Amazon jungle. In 2007, he appeared on BBC's "Castaway Exposed", and was featured as a survival specialist on "The Simple Life 5". He appeared as an interrogator for Kimberly Stewart in "Living with Kimberly". In 2008 Hawke appears on Fox Reality Revealed, Behind the scenes of Paradise Hotel 2 in the US and on Channel 5's The Gadget Show and Fifth Gear in the UK.

Hawke has served in the enlisted ranks of the U.S. Army Special Forces, as a Senior Sergeant as a U.S. Army Green Beret trained and qualified in 3 Special Forces Military Occupational Skills or MOS's. Myke served on a team as an SF Communicator (18E), as an SF Medic (18D) and as an Intelligence & Operations Sergeant (18F) and towards the end of his enlisted career served as an acting Team Sergeant (18Z). Later he became a Commissioned Officer as a Medical Service Officer (70B), attending Civil Affairs Officer Advanced Course (38A), Infantry Career Captain's Course (11A), and he completed the advanced officer course of Combined Arms Staff Service School or CAS3. After 9/11, Myke went back through the entire Special Forces Qualification course, 16 years after the first time, to earn his SF Officer Branch of 18A and served as an ODA Team Commander. Captain Hawke has deployed to Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has also served in a number of conflicts as a U.S. government contractor as a project manager overseas. He has established and operated a Combat Medic School and War Clinic in Azerbaijan, a Combat Search & Rescue Program in Colombia and managed a Combat Aviation Operation in Sierra Leone. He most recently served in Afghanistan as a Commander of Mujahideen Militia against Taliban and Al-Qaeda Forces. He currently Serves in the U.S. Army Reserves as a Special Forces Captain and is assigned to the U.S.Forces Korea attached to the U.N. (United Nations).Fact|date=March 2008

Hawke is a native English language speaker and has advanced knowledge of Russian language and Spanish language.Fact|date=March 2008 He has taught himself, used and been rated in a number of other languages such as French, Turkish, Italian and Serbo-Croatian. He developed a method for learning languages and published a book called "The Quick & Dirty Guide to Learning Languages, FAST".Fact|date=March 2008 Myke has a survival book due out in Spring of '09 with Running Press.

Hawke is a 3rd degree black belt in Aikido.Fact|date=March 2008

Hawke is married to Ruth England. He has three sons and resides in the United Kingdom.Fact|date=March 2008

External links

* [http://www.mykehawke.com Myke Hawke Official Site]
* [http://www.specops.com Specops]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1780143/ IMDB]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1581600968 Amazon]