Celebrities That Served In the Military Before Hollywood Fame

Johnny Cash

Before he was writing Ring of Fire, he was deep in it. Johnny Cash was born in Arkansas and saw military culture as a big part of his life. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1950 and was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the U.S. Air Force Security Service, moving him to Landsberg, Germany. There, he learned morse code and intercepted Soviet transmissions. 

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