American Loser survival "Experts"

This is simply my opinion, not fact; based on personal experience and information obtained through the internet, TV and social media, oh! and the freedom of information act

Did you ever notice how petty and juvenile acting the American survival "experts" are? Not so with the Canadian, UK, Kiwi, or Aussie guys. Someone did point out to me that Les and Ray mears have made comments about other survival guys.

However, Only the Americans are back stabbing shit stirrers. None of them has ever packed a bag and flew 1/2 way around the world on a 1 way ticket, then survived or lived on their own. Each of these "experts" has either had the support of a production company or the military, or both. One individual I had the displeasure of working with on a TV series had NO outdoor skills or experience at all. His claim to wilderness fame was that he was an Green Beret and liked archery. He admitted that he had never been camping or spent a night alone in the outdoors. Yet, Discovery and the production company billed him as an "expert" in survival.

I have unlimited respect for the men of special forces, but Being a Ranger, Sniper, Green Beret, Navy SEAL, USAF pararescue, etc. does NOT automatically make you a survival expert.

 I loosely followed the online hatchet job perpetuated by Mykel Pierce AKA "Mykel hawke" against Joe Teti, it appears to me someone is jealous of the other and just wants to see them fired. I also read about the accusations by hawke/Pierce and others that teti threatened them and made false claims about his military contractor experience etc. It still  seems pretty juvenile to me, Im sure it was his narcissistic attitude that got him fired from Discovery. Yet, Hawke/pierce had the nerve to make a comment to me about how I should respect other veterans, what a hypocrite.

 Again Teti appears in the saga of Cody Lundin, the bare foot Hippy survival "expert" on  the show "Dual Survival". Teti appears to me another huge a-hole narcissist and would have been difficult to work with. I applaud both Matt and Cody for being able to work with him. Me? I would have drove and ice pick through his skull on the 1st day.

 I remember when Cody wore shoes and carried a green river knife. His barefoot idea came about from another BOSS instructor who went by the colorful moniker of "Earthworm". I seriously doubt that Cody had ever seen or even heard of a Mora knife until Mors Kohanski introduced them to the American bushcraft scene at the 1990 Rabbit stick Rendezvous.

In a phone conversation with Matt Graham several months before Cody was fired from Discovery for his tantrum with Teti. Matt told me (in october) that he was replacing Cody on "dual" in the next few months. Then, in January ( i think it was) I heard Cody was "Fired". Hmmm, it strikes me that the shit runs deep with Discovery channel.

Then there is Dave Cantebury, the most annoying "expert" of all. I can remember him on all the forums a few years ago asking people how to make bow & drill fires, then whamo! the next thing you know he is a survival "expert" on TV. He also made claims of being an Army Ranger His exact quote was;
“As an Ex Army Ranger,Survival Instructor,and Extreme Hunter I expect alot from my gear. It is for that reason that the gear advertised for sale on this site has all been tested by myself and my son in a variety of extreme conditions. When your life depends on what little you carry-Buy from Wilderness Outfitters. We appreciate your business.”. It has been proven that He is NOT a Ranger,  he is guilty of stolen valor and stealing other people intellectual property and claiming them as his own original ideas....petty, juvenile, and bush league. And, he apparently stupid if he thought that he could make false claims about being a ranger in the internet age. Someone - Most likely a Ranger, would call you out on it.

I am amazed but not surprised to see idiotic people following all of the a fore mentioned A-holes, and continue to believe that they are Wilderness survival "experts".

Personally, Id love to see a TV show featuring all of the knucklehead American survival "experts" fired from Dick-scovery channel. Might as well throw in Bear grills and terry schappert too for comic relief. Put them all on an Island with no connections to a production crew or social media. I seriously doubt any of them could make it past 3 days.

See you on the trail!

Tomahawk

(UPDATE) - Apparently  Hawke has taken umbridge to my post. He thinks that his name being mentioned 3 times in a 7 line paragraph, Posted on an unpopular blog is - in his words- a "Smear campaign".The only one "smearing" anything is him. According to various sources on the internet he is sending notes and emails to people stating this. For someone who is trying to keep a low profile and at the very least some semblance of decency, he is doing his very best to spread the word about nothing.....his saga about teti is old news. As stated in the opening line of this post - I am simply voicing my opinion, it is not fact. If the afore mentioned individual considers this to be a "Smear campaign" he is a bigger ego maniac then previously assumed.

I had nothing against Hawke personally , I was , - as I stated - simply voicing my own opinion. Hawk on the other hand is vastly different. He talks about stating facts etc. but continues to send messages and texts to people via FB and other media slamming me as a "Pan handler" for my Go fund me campaign. Talk about a guy whose is very disrespectful and knows NOTHING about the facts in regard to me. Hypocrite Hawke can eat a bowl of dicks;

More crazy psycho babble from Hero Mykel Hawke - dude is definately out there; Dude is going to a lot of effort for nothing. Contacting the "FOIA Folks" for what? I think this jackass actually believes Im claiming to be a real colonel or something. Jokes on him, what is the old addage? when you assume you make an ass out of - u and - me.

Removing posts? Lying about military records to make money off people? Hmmm, I think mr. Hawke needs to calm dowm and as he likes to say "Get the facts" before he once again make a public ass out of himself

Via Facebook;

Ken Lunn i'm not saying that... yet. is spoke to all the stolen valor folks today, and we agree, it looks and smells wrong. so, we put in the FOIA requests today. it takes 4-8 weeks to get them back. if he's legit, awesome kudos and i will post his praise, cause that's how i am, even to folks who are jerks to me. but if he's lyin', then i think there will be some sadness coming to his world. i don't know him, never said or did anything to him. he chose to beat on me, and hey, i am cool with that too. but when he beats on me about teti, then he shames three dead men, the victims of teti's wrongs and the special forces community as well as me and my family, and all my claims are true, documented, published, posted and proven true by both friend and foe. so, for him to attack on that front, opened the door for a real combat vet and special forces officer to check some facts. i hear tell, he took my photo off his wrongful attack blog and he's already taken this money begging request off line, too. no matter, i document stuff legal and proper and already have the legal proof. my aim is true and my purpose truth. if someone is lying about their military records and using those lies to ask money from the public, that is indeed, stolen valor, fact of law. as a duty to my country and people, i will not abide that on my watch. i truly hope colonel thomas d. moore is what he says because i take no pride in fighting fellow americans. the fact that he has started removing posts, implies he already knows he's wrong. the irony is, moore made a post about americans back stabbing americans and then he goes and does exactly that? kinds seems like hypocracy to me.... just saying. y'all believe whatever ya' like. i do highly recommend folks check facts before you decide what to believe. in this modern era, there seems to be more liars that truth tellers, sad to say. but the truth is out there... ask mulder... peace ! 🙂

(UPDATE 3/24/17)

" moore made a post about americans back stabbing americans and then he goes and does exactly that?" Well that may be Myke, but I dont claim to be a survival expert or TV celeb, and I an certainly not in the public eye. I know you seem to have a hard time assimilating information so, let me spell it out for you - my personal opinion in the above post is about so called TV survival "experts"......learn to read .