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MixedLoad
9 November 2010, 07:08
Just got this book and was wondering if anyone here knows of Mark Lauren and can give me some heads up on this guy.

Mark Lauren
Mark Lauren is a certified Military Physical Training Specialist, Special Operations Combat Controller, triathlete, and competitive Thai boxer. He has effectively prepared over 700 trainees for the extreme demands of the most elite levels of the Special Operations community.

Mark started his career by being one of twelve to graduate the Pararescue & Combat Control Indoctrination Course, in a class that 94 trainees started.
As an experienced operator, during mission planning and execution of airfield seizures, combat search & rescue, close air support, and reconnaissance & surveillance missions, he trained troops capable of immediate deployment into areas of forward combat operation by military freefall, static-line, all-terrain vehicles, overland, scuba, and other amphibious means...

There are some things that jumped out at me regarding his verbiage in the book that have my meter pegged. Just interested in the responses here.

Bio Clicky (http://www.marklauren.com/biography.html)
KamoKid
9 November 2010, 23:58
What are you wanting to know?

The guy is legit, and was an instructor for some of the CCT pipeline. He worked a short stint as a Civ Instructor for CCT and then left to do other things.

The man was always ripped and in top shape and set the example as an instructor. He'd smoke your balls and being doing everything with you at the same time (this is from first hand experience and I'm no slouch by any means either if I say so myself :D ). In underwater training you'd better be far away from him because if he grabbed onto you, you were gonna be under for awhile...
MixedLoad
12 November 2010, 05:33
Thanks for the reply, KK.
KamoKid
12 November 2010, 09:31
^^ Yep, no worries.
redhawk
14 November 2010, 23:13
Lauren broke, and still holds, the Pararescue/ Combat Control Indoctrination Course's long standing "underwater record" by swimming 133 meters, on one breath, subsurface, for 2 minutes and 23 seconds, until losing consciousness.
Holy shit. :eek:
Purple36
15 November 2010, 07:42
Hah, funny, I just bought that book too..going to start it today
ARCH-E
15 November 2010, 07:45
Holy shit. :eek:

You should see the faces droop after they mention that they're going to break it and ask what it is... BEAST.
MixedLoad
15 November 2010, 08:58
Hah, funny, I just bought that book too..going to start it today

Finished it yesterday and have been doing the WO's for five days now. Quite sore. Good read.
SATCOM
15 November 2010, 10:39
"Lauren broke, and still holds, the Pararescue/ Combat Control Indoctrination Course's long standing "underwater record" by swimming 133 meters, on one breath, subsurface, for 2 minutes and 23 seconds, until losing consciousness."

The record prior to his was held by a guy (now retired and Two Four vet) on my OL-H team, of 115 meters....
KS11
18 December 2010, 14:58
He'd smoke your balls and being doing everything with you at the same time (this is from first hand experience and I'm no slouch by any means either if I say so myself :D ).

You are too a slouch...:biggrin::tongue:
KamoKid
19 December 2010, 16:46
You are too a slouch...:biggrin::tongue:

:D

simply comparing it our current contract members... Which probably isn't the best to do. LOL! j/k
low country
9 January 2011, 17:02
Based on the above reviews and wanting to change up my workouts, I picked up the book from Kindle. Good read thus far. Am looking forward to getting to the WODS.
shamrock
5 March 2011, 22:11
Gents

Mark is deff the real deal! My man spends weeks on end over seas in a Thai Kick boxing camping, sleeping eating and training with these guys! He slept on grass mats and housed every fighter they put him against!

Shamrock