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Mykel Hawke |
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| Born | Mykel A.G. "Hawke" Pierce November 29, 1965 Fort Knox, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, author, Director of International Operations |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Spouse | Ruth England (2005–present) |
Mykel "Myke" Hawke (born November 29, 1965) is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer.[1] He is best known for his role in the Discovery Channel series Man, Woman, Wild, where he co-stars with his wife, Ruth England, a British television presenter and actress. He is the author[2] of several books, most recently Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from New York University and a Master of Science degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. As a 25 year combat veteran Hawke was an enlisted Green Beret and later commissioned as a captain in special forces. He fought rebels and trained UN peacekeepers in war torn Africa and did combat search and rescue during the drug war in Colombia. Also of note he has earned black belts in Aikido and Judo.
Mykel Hawke also hosts the Discovery Channel show, [3] One Man Army, in which personnel from backgrounds such as special operations, military, law enforcement, and extreme sports, compete in three areas of speed, strength, and intelligence to win prize money.
His first job in the showbiz industry was as a security guard for the guest on Fox reality show Paradise Hotel 2. He was also one of four survival experts featured in the Discovery Channel's short lived series, Science of Survival. He appeared in episode 2, Escape from the Amazon; where he spends three days in the Amazon reducing his survival gear each successive day.
Mykel and Ruth both appeared as guest judges on Bravo's Top Chef Masters where they had to judge dishes created using insects as the primary ingredient.
Hawke appeared in the UK Channel 4 series Tool Academy episode 5, 2011.
Hawke also appeared as part of the helicopter rescue team in the 2009 reality television series Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment.
Hawke also was a survival director in Bizarre Foods Survival Special.
Hawke has teamed up with Tops Knives to create his custom survival knife, the Hawke's Hellion 2020, a machete like tool with a sharpening tool, firesteel, whistle, and survival saw.
Hawke made his first film appearance in the live-action film "Dirty Sanchez: The Movie". The film centers around the Dirty Sanchez Crew performing dangerous stunts in connection to the 7 Deadly Sins. In one of the sins, Gluttony, the Dirty Sanchez Crew spend four days in the Mexican desert without food and drink. Hawke serves as their mentor during their time in the desert, forcing them to carry out various survival techniques, such as killing and cooking live animals and drinking their own urine.
Hawke established a combat medic school in Azerbaijan.[4]
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