Sam Perry was born and raised in a small town on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He graduated high school in 2012 and joined the United States Marine Corps the following year at the age of eighteen. After his completion of basic training and marine combat training he was sent to the Defense Language Institute: Foreign Language Center to train as an eastern European cryptologic linguist. He would go on to graduate as a Russian linguist and after following on intelligence schools was ordered to 3rd Radio Battalion in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. There he volunteered for the Radio Reconnaissance Platoon where he trained as a clandestine Signals intelligence operator and forward observer in order to support reconnaissance missions and special operations.
In 2018 after a deployment to the southern Philippines he left the marine corps and moved to central Oregon to go to school. Currently he studies energy systems engineering and is working towards a degree in the Russian language at Oregon State University. Most of the time that is not occupied by his course work Sam uses to study Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and competes regularly as well as teaching Judo a martial art he grew up doing. Additionally, Sam enjoys the outdoors and loves camping, fishing, and generally getting safely lost and soaking up the lonely.
