Following his recovery, he was promoted to Chief Boatswain's Mate. While recovering aboard a Navy ship, he learned that his father, Timothy Kelly who was a fireman, had died of a heart attack while rescuing two children from a burning building. Kelly contracted a severe infection from river water which had seeped into scratches from thorns. One such operation involved the rescue of Admiral Dutch Maxwell's son who was shot down over North Vietnam. He participated in several special operations, earned the codename of "Snake". Kelly eventually joined the Navy during the Vietnam War and became a Navy SEAL. His mother died of cancer when he was nine. He attended Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis. John Terence Kelly was born sometime in 1949 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Irish Catholic parents.
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