 John served with distinction, earning multiple honors, including a Purple Heart and an Army Commendation Medal for protecting his team during an ambush. And that was the most intense situation of my life, being ambushed. I remember I was stuck behind a wall that was about this high and being pinned down without my helmet and just remember feeling the impacts of the rounds hitting the concrete and then watching the whole wall in front of me just explode. He survived multiple IED and grenade attacks.