Myke Hawke

Mykel Hawke (b. November 29, 1965 in Fort Knox, Kentucky), also known as Mykel Hawke Pierce, is the co-founder and director of operations for SpecOps, an adventure tourism and training company.
TV appearances
Myke began his TV career quite by accident. He started a Medical company to work in War Zones after Desert Storm. The work was so intense, he began his tourism company for his team to get some down time working in Costa Rica running children's programs. That's when MTV's Road Rules Central America found Specops and asked Mykel to help develop the program for their season finale. Hawke ended up representing SpecOps in a dual role as a bad guy and the good guy on MTV Road Rules in 1998. He then did some consulting for Danish TV in 1999, Boot Camp in 2000 and Fear Factor in 2001. After Myke's first TV appearance, he worked on numerous productions as set medic, security, translator and producer. He was mobilized for two years after 9/11. Once he completed his tour of duty, with the raised profile of Special Forces in the media, he was asked to do a number of other shows as on screen talent. Between 2004-2005 He appeared as a subject matter expert in survival, warfare, leadership, medicine and special operations for TV shows such as Tactical to Practical, Healthcops, Britain's Worst and Forever Eden. He appeared in the 2006 movie Dirty Sanchez as himself. In 2006, he also filmed an episode of the Discovery Channel's I Shouldn't Be Alive: Science of Survival in which he taught survival in the Amazon jungle.
In 2007, he appeared as the Resident Expert on Survival for the BBC's series about community survival Castaway Exposed and was featured as a survival camp instructor on The Simple Life 5. He appeared as an interrogator and fitness trainer for Kimberly Stewart in Living with Kimberly. In 2008, Hawke was a fitness trainer for Kyle's Academy in the UK and appeared on Fox Reality Revealed, Behind the scenes of Paradise Hotel 2 as the set Medic & Security, which aired in the US. In 2008, Mykel also appeared on Channel 5's The Gadget Show demonstrating new survival technologies and on the show Fifth Gear, where he was test driving old and new military jeeps. Both shows aired in the UK.
In 2009, Hawke was involved with a new reality series about survival for Discovery released in Spring. Mykel was on the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern in June, in which Andrew learned to survive and hunt for his own food in the jungle of Mexico. During the summer, he helped out on Kourtney & Khloe take Miami on E! and Myke was a recurring guest on Big Brother's Little Brother in the UK. Myke was on ABC's Good Morning America with Chris Cuomo discussing Family Preparedness in August and He was on The UK's Gadget show in November.
Author
Mykel has most recently published a book with Running Press called, "Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual". It has sold out and the second edition is in print. He will be making a Field Manual Version soon.
He developed a method for learning languages and published a book called 'The Quick & Dirty Guide to Learning Languages Fast'.
Under his pen name, A.G. Hawke. Hawke also has contributed two chapters to the book 'The Dangerously Fun Book for Boys Who Never Grew Up', both of these books are published by Paladin Press.
Mykel has published other articles and photos of combat from tours in Africa, South America and Eastern Europe with Soldier of Fortune magazine. He has been featured as a Special Forces Operator in other magazines such Backpacker, Esquire, Maxim and Playboy. His most recent work is an article on Survival in the DEC 2009 Esquire Magazine Black Book Edition.
He has also been featured in a book about warfare in Africa called 'WAR DOG, The Modern Mercenary in Action- Fighting Other People's Wars' by Al Venter. Hawke has said about the book that he was 'honored to be counted as a small man among the other truly great men who fought in those forgotten wars.'

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