John Alan Coey

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Alan Coey
Occupation	Military Physician
Date Of Birth	Nov 12, 1950(1950-11-12)
Age	74
Date Of Death	July 19, 1975,
Birthplace	Columbus
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Scorpio

John Alan Coey Biography

John Alan Coey is one of the most popular and richest Military Physician who was born on November 12, 1950 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

John Alan Coey was born in Columbus, Ohio, on 12 November 1950 to George and Phyllis Coey, both devout Christians. While growing up, John was a keen Boy Scout and attained the organisation’s top rank, Eagle Scout. He attended Ohio State University’s campus in his home town, studying forestry, and during his studies enlisted in the United States Marine Corps’ officer training program as a cadet in its Platoon Leaders Class. During this time he also taught Sunday school at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Columbus, Ohio where he was a member.

John Alan Coey (12 November 1950 – 19 July 1975) was an American soldier who served in the Rhodesian Army as one of “the Crippled Eagles”, a loosely organised group of US expatriates fighting for the unrecognised government of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) during that country’s Bush War. A devout Christian and fervent anti-communist, he was the first American fatality of the war. He moved to Rhodesia to join its army in 1972, the day after graduating from college in his home town of Columbus, Ohio, and served until he was killed in action in 1975. He kept a journal throughout his service that was posthumously published as A Martyr Speaks.

John Alan Coey Net Worth

John Alan Coey is one of the richest Military Physician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Alan Coey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Like his parents, Coey was a fervent Christian, and held forthright views on communism, which he believed was an inherently evil system of government, geared towards the ultimate destruction of Christianity and the West; he later wrote of the “murder” of 65 million people by communists in China and the Soviet Union since the October Revolution of 1917, “and the souls of millions more … indoctrinated with atheism”. In Coey’s opinion, only the retention of a society rooted in traditional Western culture and Christian faith would prevent this from happening elsewhere.

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On recovering his journal, Coey’s family discovered that portions of it which discussed army operations in too much detail—sometimes brief passages, but occasionally whole months at a time—had been censored by the army, and in some cases removed entirely. Apart from an entry on 26 December 1974, in which Coey wrote about his loneliness at Christmas and desire to get married, not a word remained after 11 November 1974. Having become engaged to a young Rhodesian woman, Coey successfully filed for Rhodesian citizenship while on leave in June 1975, then renewed his US passport in South Africa. “What a chuckle,” he wrote to a friend, “filling out those papers under a portrait of Henry Kissinger!”

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Ranked on the list of most popular Military Physician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Alan Coey celebrates birthday on November 12 of every year.

Coey first saw combat action in November 1973, in a covert external operation in Portuguese Mozambique’s north-western Tete Province. He enjoyed it, comparing the experience to the American Indian Wars of the 19th century. The following month, however, he was informed by his commanding officer that he would be not be used as a paratrooper, and would not be going on patrol again, as he was, in the commander’s words, “not worth it”. Coey felt so humiliated that he considered leaving, but resolved to stay and fight on. Despite his commander’s order to remain on base, he joined a patrol into Mozambique and crossed the border on 7 January 1974. The commanding officer flew into a rage when he discovered Coey’s insubordination two weeks later, and immediately had him brought back. Meanwhile, Coey persevered with “The Myth of American Anti- communism”, and secured its publication in the conservative, nationally distributed journal Property and Finance on 7 February 1974. Five days later, he was barred from taking part in a parachute exercise with his unit, and on 14 February he was instructed to choose another army corps or regiment by the 18th; the SAS no longer wanted him.