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1. Feeling a duty to fight in the Iraq War to help free oppressed people,[22] Snowden enlisted in the United States Army Reserve on May 7, 2004, as a Special Forces candidate through its 18X enlistment option.[34] He did not complete the training.[7] After breaking both legs in a training accident,[35] he was discharged on September 28, 2004.[36]
2 Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983,[7] in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.[8] His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett,[9][10] was a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard who became a senior official with the FBI and was at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.[11] Snowden’s father Lonnie was also an officer in the Coast Guard,[12] and his mother Elizabeth is a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.[13][14][15][16][17] His older sister, Jessica, was a lawyer at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. Edward Snowden said that he had expected to work for the federal government, as had the rest of his family.[18] His parents divorced in 2001,[19] and his father remarried.[20] Snowden scored above 145 on two separate IQ tests.[18]
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