Background
John O'Neill was born in San Diego, California and grew up in San Antonio, Texas where he attended Central Catholic Marianist High School. He has stated that his grandfather taught at the United States Naval Academy, that his father was an admiral and a Navy pilot who fought at Iwo Jima, and that he followed his two brothers into the Naval Academy, graduating in 1967.
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