1985: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger speaks with Major General Colin Powell during Capitol Hill testimony. Both of these men were to call on Powell when they served as Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor, respectively, under President Ronald Reagan. Powell was assigned to the Office of Management and Budget during the administration of President Nixon, and there he made a lasting impression on the director and the deputy director of the Office: Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci. Powell earned an MBA at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and after being promoted to major, won a White House Fellowship. In all, he has received 11 military decorations, including the Legion of Merit. Despite his own injuries, he managed to rescue his comrades from the burning helicopter and was awarded the Soldier’s Medal. During this second tour he was injured in a helicopter crash.
Powell served a second tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968-69. He was awarded the Purple Heart, and later that year, the Bronze Star. Weinberger and Carlucci became Secretary of Defense. As an Army Major, he was assigned to the Office of Management and Budget in the Nixon Administration and made a lasting impression on Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci, who worked as Director and Deputy Director of the OMB. In 1963, Lieutenant Powell was wounded by a punji-stick booby trap while patrolling the Vietnamese border with Laos. Powell was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army, and was one of the 16,000 military advisors dispatched to South Vietnam by President Kennedy in 1962. He became commander of his unit’s precision drill team and graduated in 1958 at the top of his ROTC class, with the rank of cadet colonel, the highest rank in the corps.
He entered the City College of New York to study geology, and it was there, by his own account, that he found his calling when he joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). Powell grew up in the South Bronx, arethawhere he graduated from high school without having formed any definite ambition or direction in life.
His parents were Jamaican immigrants who stressed the importance of education and personal achievement. Powell “found his calling when he joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.” He graduated at the top of his class with the rank of cadet colonel, the highest rank in the corps.Ĭolin Luther Powell was born in Harlem in 1937. OctoAutumn 1954: Colin Powell in his ROTC uniform.
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