Jon Lowrey graduated from the University of Alabama, commissioned into the Marine Corps, and served on active duty for 30 years.
Company grade highlights include two Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) deployments to the Western Pacific. The second, 13th MEU (1990), deployed to the Indian Ocean, where he served as the Artillery Battery Commander supporting 1st Battalion, 4th Marines during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Additionally, he served as the Company Commander for the Marine Security Company, Presidential Retreat, Camp David during the second Clinton Administration.
Field grade highlights include Marine Barracks, 8th & I, where he served as the Marine Corps Institute’s Operations Officer and the Parade Commander for Friday Evening and Tuesday Sunset Parades.
During his battalion command tour as Inspector-Instructor, 4th Battalion, 14th Marines in Birmingham, Alabama, he trained and deployed the battalion to Al Anbar, Iraq in 2004 and then served with I Marine Expeditionary Force as a G-3/5 Future Operations planner during operations in Al-Najaf and Fallujah. As a Colonel, he was assigned to the Operations Directorate of NATO’s International Military Staff, and then held Future Operations, Deliberate Plans, and Chief of Staff assignments with both Marine Forces Pacific, and Marine Forces Europe and Africa.
After retiring in 2016, he taught the Expeditionary Warfare School’s Blended Seminar for CDET-HI and then accepted a GS position with U.S. European Command as LNO to NATO. In this role, he focused on converging EUCOM and its Service Component Commands with Supreme Allied Commander Europe’s strategic, military plan for the Deterrence and Defense of the Euro-Atlantic Area. In 2025, he became the Regional Director, CDET-HI.
He received various military awards, holds three master’s degrees, and is a graduate of: the Army Command and General Staff College, the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting, and the Air Force War College.