Born and raised in the small town of Hazel Green, KY, Petty Officer First Class Shannon Book grew up with a great appreciation of music, and has expressed that appreciation both vocally and by playing various musical instruments throughout his life. Feeling an urgency to serve his country after Desert Storm, Shannon joined the United States Navy in July of 1993 and trained as a Fleet Marine Force Hospital Corpsman at the Naval School of Health Sciences in San Diego, Field Medical Service Sch...
Born and raised in the small town of Hazel Green, KY, Petty Officer First Class Shannon Book grew up with a great appreciation of music, and has expressed that appreciation both vocally and by playing various musical instruments throughout his life. Feeling an urgency to serve his country after Desert Storm, Shannon joined the United States Navy in July of 1993 and trained as a Fleet Marine Force Hospital Corpsman at the Naval School of Health Sciences in San Diego, Field Medical Service School, Camp Pendleton, CA. Shannon served as Corpsman in two combat deployments in Iraq: the first in 2003 with 2nd Battalion 1st Marines as part of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq, and again in 2004 during Vigilant Resolve as the Regimental Combat Team 1, Personal Security Detachments corpsman. To help relieve the stresses of combat and deployment felt by both himself and others in his unit, he would play guitar and sing during down time…and most importantly, began to write his own music about how he and others felt about their experiences. After returning home from his 2nd deployment, Shannon served as an instructor at the Field Medical Battalion School at Camp Johnson, NC, and worked to insure that his students could perform their jobs under the pressures of combat. Recently retired from the United States Navy due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), he is working on a complete collection of original songs reflecting his time in combat, his injuries (both physical and emotional), and living with the aftermath of war. Shannon hopes his music will help to educate military families and civilians, as well as help to heal those that have shared in some of his experiences.
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