General Information:
Name: Knowle Justin Rohrer
Nickname: The Roar, Big Guy
Date of birth: June 10, 1967
Birthplace: McAllen, TX
Eye color: dark green
Hair color: brown
Height: 6'4"
Military rank: Master Sergeant E-8 (USMC)

Previous Address:
240 Yoakum Parkway Apt. 6-F
Alexandria, VA 22304

Current Vehicle: Hummer

Relationship History:
2005-present: single
1988-2005: dated Shannon McMahon.
2004: has affair with Marita Covarrubias.
1986-1987: dated Monica Reyes.
1981-1985: dated Shannon McMahon, along with being a player

Family:
Father: Gary Theodore Rohrer
Mother: Naomi Elizabeth Rohrer (deceased March 19, 2006 of heart complications)
Siblings: none.

Education:
1971-1978: Gonzalez Elementary School (McAllen, TX)
1978-1981: Morris Middle School (McAllen, TX)
1981-1985: Northwood School (Lake Placid, NY)

1985-1989: Brown University (Providence, RI)
Majored in: military science

Military History:
1988: boot camp at Recruit Training Depot in Parris Island, SC
1990-1992: served with the USMC in Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm (Corporal E-4)
2006: promoted to Master Sergeant E-8 and sent out to Camp Lejeune, NC to prepare for a fake war with Iran, when in reality it is Alien Colonization.

Work History:
1992-1994: Texas State Guard (Austin, TX)
1994-1998: Department of Defense Transformation training (Fort Hood, TX)
1998-2006: Department of Defense (strategy planning and Special Ops) (Washington, D.C.)

Hobbies: plays guitar and enjoys singing Johnny Cash, specifically likes to belt out "Sam Hall".

Lifestyle: Knowle Rohrer grew up in deep south Texas as an only child to Gary and Naomi. Life growing up was hard for him. His father was a drunk who liked to take out his anger on his wife, Naomi, and even Knowle. Luckily for Knowle, he had a good extended family with the Doggett and Reyes families who lived near by in the same city of McAllen.

As a child, Knowle became interested in the U.S. Army when he and his friend John Doggett would play "backyard boot camp", where they would gather up all their friends to be Marines and dig trenches on the Doggett farm. This interest in the Marine Corps would lead Knowle on his path of life and in 1988 he went through boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina.

Throughout life Knowle had a thirst for knowledge. Not satisfied with the education he would recieve through public school in McAllen, Knowle paid his own way to Northwood School in Lake Placid, New York. Always a leader, his friend John Doggett followed, also wanting to recieve the highest education possible. Monica Reyes followed the next year. The education he recieved while in boot camp was not enough to satisfy him and he continued going to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 1985 to 1989, where he majored in Military Science, and excelled at learning as many foreign languages as he could, including Arabic, which became useful to him during the Gulf War.

From 1990 to 1992, Knowle served in Operation Desert Storm as a Corporal E-4 for the United States Marine Corps. It's safe to say that he went through hard times during the war. In "Stranded I" (8x17) we learn that Knowle was wounded while in battle and had to improvise medical treatment without any medical supplies. On February 25, 1991 the USMC Barracks in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia were hit by a Scud missile. The building collapsed and John Doggett pulled him out, saving his life. Both men were wounded, earning their ticket home. In 1992, Knowle retired from active duty with the USMC.

After the Gulf War, Knowle moved back to Texas and joined the Texas State Guard in Austin, continuing - in his own way - his advancement with the armed forces. Two years later Knowle is approached by an officer with the Department of Defense who offers Knowle a job with Transformation training in Fort Hood, Texas. Knowle would excelle with this training for the next four years and in 1998 he would move to Washington, D.C. to work at the Pentagon with the Department of Defense. He would tell everyone he did strategy planning, but in reality he was working as a Special Operations agent, going on dangerous missions he could never speak to anyone about.

In 2006, Knowle recieved a suspicious promotion in the form of his military advancement from the President of the United States. He was promoted from Corporal E-4 to Master Sergeant E-8. The suspicion around this promotion was because he had not served actively with the Marines since 1992. He was sent away to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to help prepare for a "war with Iran", in reality he was being set up by aliens within to be killed in preparation for Alien Colonization.

Knowle has never been good at relationships. He was a player during high school while dating Shannon (who happened to be a player herself). While in college, Knowle dated Monica Reyes for a year. She happened to live with him while they both attended Brown University. Living a secret life as a Special Opererations agent had a toll on Knowle's personal life. When he started in with the Department of Defense in 1998 he was dating Shannon McMahon, his steady girl friend since 1988, though he had dated her before for many years. That same year, he asked Monica Reyes to stay with him in Washington instead of going down to New Orleans to continue with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, knowing she wasn't happy with her career move of law enforcement. In 2005, Knowle and Shannon's relationship came to an end when Shannon broke up with him, not wanting to live life as a "player". Shannon also realized that Knowle had grown feelings for Monica Reyes. Shannon had also fell in love with another man. It wasn't until Knowle was called again to active duty, this time for Alien Colonization (disguised as a pending war with Iran), that he told Monica how he felt for her, saying that he never told her before because he believed he could never give her the happiness she deserved. To his surprise, Monica felt the same way for him.

Having enemies is something Knowle tries to avoid, but sometimes can not be helped. He made an enemy out of Alex Krycek after he found out what he did to John Doggett and Monica Reyes in March 2004. He's been at odds with him ever since, and has tried to move beyond the tension, but Krycek's attitude makes that difficult, and is sometimes too easy to pick on. Part of the reason Knowle became at odds with Krycek was because of how loyal he is to his friends and how much he cares for them. Krycek betrayed John and Monica, therefore betraying Knowle.

Knowle is loyal to his mother and holds her higher than anyone else in his life. After boot camp in 1988, Knowle helped his mother get away from his abusive father and had him arrested for what he had done to his mother. This is possibily the driving motivation he had to make it through boot camp - to save his mother. But his family complication didn't stop with his father's arrest. In March 2006, Gary was released from prison after seventeen years because of "good time", claiming to be a reformed Christian. Though it was never proven, Knowle believes his father caused the heart complications that resulted in Naomi's death.

Knowle has a passion for playing guitar, and has a fondness for the music of Johnny Cash. He also enjoys cooking and has extensive knowledge on strange subjects such as ice in restaurants. He is gifted with knowledge and excels with learning foreign languages as if it were nothing.

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