John Ferrell:
CLASS OF 1989
Belleville Township East High SchoolClass of 1989
Belleville, IL
John's Story
John lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania but keeps a house in Port Orange, FL. John is married. John's schools include Belleville Township East High School. John later attended Embry-Riddle FL/AZ (B.S. Aviation Business Administration); and received an M.S. from Kansas State University. John has served in the U.S. Army since 1994.
After college, John entered the Army as an Army Aviator flying AH64 Apache helicopters. He has served at several U.S. and overseas locations including Korea, Germany, and Italy with 3 combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. In recent years, John has transitioned to Simulations Operatio...Expand for more
ns and has supported technology programs for both U.S. Southern Command and for NATO. Now a Colonel, he is a student at the Army War College.
One of John's favorite quotes is:""War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Milton, Philosopher".
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