Who is John Snow?
Outside of Game of Thrones…
A Little About John:
Born in 1991 and raised just outside of Huntsville, Alabama. John graduated from Madison County High School with an Advanced Diploma in 2009 and started Calhoun Community College that same year.
The next year, in 2010, John took the Oath of Enlistment for the US Navy. Earning a Top Secret Clearance by the end of the year.
In 2012, he became a Petty Officer Third Class in time for a short-notice deployment. During that deployment, he was apart of training just off the coast of Lybia when the US Embassy was attacked. He was on a Landing Craft with the USS Ft. McHenry, waiting for the order to land on the beaches and assist in any rescue efforts. Orders that never came..
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In 2014, went on his second deployment to the Middle East to provide support and posturing for security within the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea. Earning Petty Officer Second Class upon his return home. Near the end of his tour, he assisted in training and logistics for the command’s largest department.
Transferred from that command to NAF Atsugi in 2015 then to NSA Bahrain in 2017 to run the barracks for the forward deployed Sailors and Marines there in the Arabian Gulf. Earning Petty Officer First Class in 2018.
In 2019, he transferred to the USS Chinook to be the de facto Supply Officer and in charge of crew sustenance, repair parts, and redesigning crew living spaces to allow longer mission readiness within the Arabian Gulf. He was apart of the sortie after the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani and also seeing the foreign response to COVID-19.
During the period of Dec 2020 and Jan 2021, he became a victim of sexual assault and later had to endure the death of one of his twin sons without having the opportunity of ever seeing him before the tragic event since the pandemic had complicated international travel and his command deeminging him too essential to allow the emergency leave. After the death of his son, he was granted Humanitarian Reassignment to NS Everett and relocated. That was when he was able to meet his children for the first time since their birth.
Here he helped manage the barracks and was later transferred to oversee the division generally encompassing either temporary personnel or (more likely) those Sailors who were either recovering from injuries or waiting to be medically processed out (if their injuries were to severe to stay in active duty service). While in this position, he was diagnosed with an issue requiring urgent open heart surgery in early 2022. With that, he was ultimately medically retired from the Navy in 2023 after nearly 13 years of honorable Naval Service.
