John M. Menter

Colonel John M Menter (Retired) was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in Armor through the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Program and assigned to an Armored Cavalry Regiment following completion of his bachelors degree in Civil Engineering & History from the California Polytechnic University – Pomona, CA in 1979. He is also a graduate of the US Army War College Defense Strategic Studies Course, the US Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Armor Officer Basic & Advance Course, Quartermaster and Transportation Officer Advance Courses. His civilian education also includes a Doctorate in History as well as Masters Degree in History, and an MBA from the University of La Verne. He is a recipient of the U.S. Army Armor Association’s Silver Order of Saint George, the National Infantry Association’s Order of Saint Maurice, The Distinguished Order of Saint Martin from the U.S. Army Association of Quartermasters and the Honorable Order of Saint Christopher from the U.S. Army Transportation Corps Regimental Association.

Dr. Menter has served in a variety of tours world-wide in both armor and combat service support positions from company up to Division level. He retired after 25 years from active duty in April 2002, and is currently working for General Dynamics Information Technology as the Mission Command Training Support Program Warfighter Functional Area Team Chief. He has led hundreds of classes and simulations for US Army combat and sustainment units. It was his thorough knowledge of WWII, along with over 40 years of war gaming combined with recently discovered, shocking information of this cataclysmic event that inspired him to create this suspenseful alternative history-based novel ‘The Lesser of Two Evils’. He currently resides in Columbus, Indiana with his wife, Jeanette.