Staff

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BOB, pictured here at his wilderness homestead is the founder and Chief Instructor at the Global Survival Institute.

After receiving his bachelors degree and finishing graduate school with an MBA Bob joined the United States Army where he received 13 months of combat training at 4 different military training centers.

After being commissioned as an officer and receiving his top secret clearances he commanded a nuclear weapons base in Italy for several years. 

He is a licensed pilot, scuba diver, expert survivalist, and a past member of both the United Martial Arts Federation and the International Combat Hapkido Federation.

Bob lives an extremely self-reliant lifestyle on his remote wilderness homestead and was, for many years, a routine contributor to the American Survival Guide magazine.  Bob claims he is the only man alive who made it to Heaven without having to die.

DIANE, Bobs assistant, pictured here spotting rounds at a private weapons class conducted by Bob in 2008.

Diane has a PHD, is a licensed pilot, a 3rd degree black belt, and speaks Spanish, French, and Italian fluently.

She attended one of Bob's classes in 2003 and has been associated with the school ever since.  

Diane, shooting fish with a bow during a private class conducted in Canada during the summer of 2005.

She is very proficient with a number of different weapons. .  

STAFF IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY FIRST NAME

 DAN is pictured here with an elk that he bagged deep in the Colorado mountains.  Dan is one of the few true mountain men left in this country today.  He lived deep in the mountains of Idaho for many years and guided hunters into those mountains.  He lived off the land for months at a time and survived some of the worst weather that can be found in North America.  He has experienced hunger, cold and thirst first hand as he has pushed the limits of survival on a number of occasions. He is an expert survivalist and right at home in the woods or the mountains no matter how harsh the conditions might be.  He lives on his homestead and is an excellent horseman as he owns and rides his own horses on a routine basis.   

 

CHUCK is a former Navy Corpsman and Air Force Medic who served in Vietnam with 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division.  

Before founding Medical Corps in 1995, Chuck worked in Hospitals, ORs and ERs across the United States.   In 1998 he published the correct dosing information for the prevention of Anthrax and Plague--long before the infamous Anthrax-laced letters hit Washington.  Medical Corps was founded to teach the general public and medical professionals how to survive without the benefit of our hospital or clinical infrastructures.  Chuck and his family moved to Ohio in 1997 after guest teaching at the Global Survival Institute..

 

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ERIC started his training in combatives and survival at the early age of 8.  His journey of 21 years of experience has consisted of numerous fortunate opportunities to train in many unique locations including; Russia, Okinawa, Korea and Japan.  Having the honor and pleasure of training with some of finest instructors in the world of hand-to-hand combat, Eric is currently also a Staff Sergeant with the USAF and includes many unique supporting skills to his system of combatives which includes: Combat/Wilderness first aid instruction, primitive and modern Wilderness Survival instruction, NRA Certified Pistol instruction, Personal Protection in the Home instruction, Physical Fitness instruction, and basic Escape and Evasion skills.  There are very few people that I would take with me in a bad situation but Eric is one of them. Nicknamed "the assassin" by his peers he is made out of the same material is the swamp fox.

 

GUY (center) is teaching students the proper method of cleaning  fish.  Guy lives on a beautiful and very scenic 400 acre wilderness retreat complete with several ponds and lakes which he personally developed and stocked with fish. Guy fed his entire family throughout the years primarily off his land as a substantial  part of the family diet has been venison, fish and wild turkey supplemented by many greenhouses and gardens. Guy assists with survival instruction and is one of the foremost authorities on homesteading and self reliant living in the United States today. Guy is very knowledgeable at developing natural springs, ponds, lakes, and wilderness cabins using actual logs and is the recipient of many wildlife awards as a result of his efforts in developing habitats on his own property that are well suited to supporting every kind of wildlife.                                                                                                                   

MARK pictured here rappelling the New River Gorge in West Virginia.  Mark, a graduate of Purdue University, has been associated with the school for over fifteen years.  He is the only member of the staff who trained under Chris Janowski, U.S. Special Forces. Mark has his concealed carry license, and has received extensive training in tactical weapons, wilderness survival and rappelling.

SUNSHINE grew up on her Native American grandparents' 27-acre self-sufficient farm. There she learned about the local plants, animals and how to operate the farm without the use of machinery.

She began learning the arts of survival and self-sufficiency from an early age. This knowledge was the basis of her success, when for over a decade she used her tracking skills with her canine partner as a Search and Rescue officer to find missing people.

Today, this respected lecturer, who instructs classes on wilderness survival, edible, medicinal and utilitarian plants at the Global Survival Institute continues to share the knowledge given to her by her Native American grandparents.

Her writings bring her skills and knowledge to her readers along with the insight and wit that are her trademarks.

TOM pictured here starting a fire with a hand drill.  Tom is a licensed pilot and scuba diver and holds a federal firearms license. Like other staff members he has his own homestead and relies very little on conventional sources for his basic needs.  Tom teaches a host of survival related topics and is very skilled at a number of primitive survival techniques. You could drop Tom anywhere in the world with a knife and he would have food, water and shelter in short order. 

TONY  is one of the foremost desert survival instructors in North America.  He spends more time in the desert than he does at home. He lives in the desert, trains in the desert and calls the desert his home.Tony resides in Arizona and personally conducts all of the desert survival training conducted by the Global Survival Institute,

Tony has instructed survival coursed for the U.S. Military, National Park Service,  USDA, and for private corporations. He is also on the adjunct faculty at Northern Arizona University where he teaches survival and primitive technology courses. His main area of focus is the southwest and he has survival experience in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Great Basin Deserts of North America