Senior Grand Master Harry Greene entered the U.S. Army in March 1962 and did 14 weeks of basic training at Fort Ord, California. After graduation in mid-June 1962, he went on to Fort Benning, Georgia for Parachute, Jump School for four weeks, graduating in mid-July 1962. Next he spent a year at Fort Bragg in North Carolina for Special Forces training and received his Special Forces Qualification Course Certificate in late 1963. He was then sent to Jungle School in Panama at the School of the America’s. During his six months in Jungle School he trained days and in the evenings he spent and extra 2 hours 7 days a week learning Combative Knife from one of his instructors, who also taught him how to take out a combative in 2.5 seconds.
Senior Grand Master Harry Greene received his Jungle School Certificate in 1964 and then was assigned to 10th Special Forces Group in Southern Bavaira, Germany where he began training other members of his team. After a short time there, he volunteered to go to Vietnam and spent two consecutive tours, from November 1966 to November 1968, in the jungles of Vietnam. In his first year he was assigned to 502, Long Rang Recon, 101st Airborne, through 5th Special Forces. In his second year he was stationed with the 503rd Rock, South Korean Special Forces thanks to the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
After Vietnam, he came back to Fort Bragg for a short time and went back to 10th group, and then to 3rd Group once again and then spent a few months with the 173rd Airborne Brigade as a Combative Knife instructor.
SGM Greene continued his Combative Knife training throughout his military service and passed on his Combative knife training to others in his units.
Beginning in 1985, SGM Greene spent 20 years in San Francisco working in drug enforcement until his retirement in 2005.
SGM Greene teaches Combative Knife in a 2.5 second system. Now in his mid 70’s, SGM Greene continues to teach students his One on One Filipino Martial Arts in Sacramento, California, where he lives with his beautiful wife of 36 years, Mary Greene.
SGM Harry Greene is a lifetime member of Ordonez Kajukenbo Ohana (OKO) headed by Great Grand Master Jason Groff.
Senior Grand Master Harry Greene was recently honored with his induction into the 2016 All-Pro Tae Kwon Do Hall of Fame, a honored that is well deserved.
He was also inducted into Dave Johnson’s 2017 Elite Black Belt Hall of Fame.
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