Hi.
My name is John. Born in
Portland, Oregon, I’ve lived in Hawaii for about ten years now, but before
flying into Honolulu International Airport on Submarine duty orders from the
U.S. Navy, I lived in Redding, California.
For those that don’t know Redding is located centrally in northern
California. To the west of Redding, on
the coast, is another city I was familiar with called Eureka. Between these two cities is a vast expanse of
mountainous, forested wilderness where I grew up home-schooled with minimal exposure
to television and electronics in general.
After earning a High-School
Proficiency Certificate when I was 15, I attended two different public high
schools, followed by two different community colleges, before enlisting in the
Navy without a diploma or degree at age 18.
I went into the Submarine Electronic Computer Field and became a submarine
sonar technician, even though I wanted to fly jets.
I spent nine years in the Navy,
travelling to such places as Guam, Okinawa, Singapore, Australia, The Red Sea
and Iraq, and I earned various awards including Expert Pistol & Rifle Shot
medals, Good Conduct medals, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary medals, a
Navy Achievement medal and a Joint-Service Commendation medal.
I discovered video-editing software
while on a deployment and later picked up a digital camera one day thinking it
would be fun to make a music video for a friend of mine. I had such a fun time that we made a couple
of different videos, and now I’m a student at Hawaii Pacific University
majoring in Multimedia Cinematic Production.
The Montgomery G.I. Bill and Yellow Ribbon program currently pays my
tuition and rent. The motorcycle in the
pictures above is a custom 2002 Bigdog Pitbull ProStreet that I used to
have.
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