John b poindexter biography

In , Poindexter led a heroic, though quickly forgotten, rescue mission in South Vietnam.

A few months later, Poindexter returned to the United States, to NYU, where he clipped through an MBA in a year, and began a part-time PhD program in “I took the uniform off and I never put it back on again,” he remembers.

“I probably became a civilian again on the flight back from Vietnam.” It was not until that Poindexter would suddenly find himself confronted by a flood of memories from that momentous rescue—and a startling realization that would send him off on a new mission, this time for recognition.

While reading Keith William Nolan’s Into Cambodia (Presidio), Poindexter came across a summary of a battle that, although unnamed, was unmistakably the one he and his troops had fought. The book mentioned that the medals Poindexter had requested for his men back in had been rejected due to a bureaucratic error.

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