BiographyOfCaptain John A. Rodgaard, USN (Ret)Captain Rodgaard has over 41 years with the naval service of the United States, to include 12 years as a petty officer and 29 years of commissioned service as a naval intelligence officer.As a reservist, he has had several active duty tours to include a two-year sea tour in the Mediterranean on a destroyer escort, the USS Courtney, DE-1021 as a CIC Watch Supervisor and Intelligence Petty Officer. As a naval intelligence professional, he has also served various navy and joint intelligence tours with Submarine Group 8, Carrier Group 4, the Office of Naval Intelligence, the J2 Defense Intelligence Agency, Commander Submarines Mediterranean, the US European Command and the Navy Staff, Pentagon. Captain Rodgaard completed four years of active service with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency as a senior collection officer and strategist in 2010.As a civilian, Captain Rodgaard has been employed as a contract intelligence analyst with the National Reconnaissance Office, the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Air Force U-2 Programme, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.He is a published author and a contributor to several Discovery Channel Unsolved History Television Programmes: "The Death of the USS Arizona; Inside Hitler's Bunker; Unsolved History of Pearl Harbor - Midget Submarines. His work on the Japanese Midget Submarines was showcased on NOVA Science Series, "Killer Submarines of Pearl Harbor" in 2010.He co-authored the only biography on Commodore Charles Stewart, USN the most successful fighting captain of the USS Constitution, A CALL TO THE SEA: CAPTAIN CHARLES STEWART OF THE USS CONSTITUTION. He published his second book in 2010, A HARD FOUGHT SHIP: THE STORY OF HMS VENOMOUS. He is the recipient of the Naval Institute's History Author of the Year for the year 2000 and he is a contributor and frequent reviewer to Naval History Magazine, Society for Nautical Research and the Navy History Foundation. Captain Rodgaard holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Science; a Masters in Political Science, and he is a graduate of the United States Naval War College.He is married to Judith Pearson, PhD from Kansas City, Missouri, and he as two children from a previous marriage who are also intelligence officers. Captain Rodgaard is the Grandfather of Isabella Rodgaard, age 6 and Christian Rodgaard, age 3.