John W. Crockett

John W. Crockett was born in Sikeston, Missouri. He grew up in Southeast Missouri and East Texas. After graduating from high-school in Missouri, he joined the Marine Corps and has been on active duty in the Marine Corps, the Army, and the Navy as well as the Army and Navy Reserves. He has an MBA from the University of La Verne and began writing in 1993 as a "stringer" writing dozens of articles for "The Indianhead," the Second Infantry Division's bi-weekly newspaper. John has had a variety of jobs in addition to his military service, including being a vocational instructor in the Texas prison system, a volunteer fireman, and a network engineer for a civil engineering firm. He is currently employed in business management for a large firm whose primary contracts are in the defense industry while continuing to serve with the Navy Reserve.