John Tidwell has early roots in Florida, but he moved around a lot, too, and found himself working labor jobs and even day working a bit.
“I’ve been riding horses my whole life,” Tidwell said. “That was all I ever did; I did day work before I even joined the Marine Corps, back in high school. Just doing sorting work and stuff like that.”
Tidwell joined up with the Marines when he was 20, and he turned 24 on his first deployment to Afghanistan.
“It gave me some direction and everything. I was tired of just doing labor type jobs to get by from paycheck to paycheck, and it wasn’t meaning anything. If I look back on my life, and that’s all I did my whole life, I wouldn’t have accomplished anything.
