Seminars dates are now set for Cork Ireland (3 day Gashuku), Belgium, Germany, and France!  Follow the Seminars link to the appropriate country. 
 

 

 

Command Sergeant Major (ret.) Mark Gentry retired with 26 years in the U.S. Army’s Special Forces.  His career in special operations spanned from Vietnam where he trained and led indigenous recon teams into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, to Desert Storm where he served as CSM of the Joint Special Operations Command.  CSM Gentry was one of the original Delta Force operators serving as team member, team leader, squadron Sergeant Major, operations noncommissioned officer, and special projects Sergeant Major.  As a Delta operator he was involved in developing tactics and techniques for counter terrorism, then planning and conducting CT operations throughout the world.
 
He has trained several foreign police and military hostage rescue forces and CT teams.  CSM Gentry served with the British 22 SAS regiment and has trained with all major hostage rescue teams in the free world.  He was involved with the training of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team during its inception.  He was called upon to develop training and instruct with the Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team (CAT).  CSM Gentry has conducted dignitary protection and provided training to the State Department’s Dignitary Security Service.
 
On the local level he has trained with many police agencies including LAPD SWAT, LASD SEB, Indianapolis Police Department SWAT, and several local office SWAT teams of the FBI.  Since retiring in 1992, CSM Gentry has provided training to local law enforcement involving advanced close quarter combat shooting techniques, planning and conducting raids, explosive breaching, tactical building searches, and covert surveillance techniques.

 

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