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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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