Colin Luther Powell is a retired four-star general in the United States Army and a United States statesman. From 2001 to 2Colin Luther Powell is a retired four-star general in the United States Army and a United States statesman. From 2001 to 2005 he was serving under President George W. Bush as the 65th United States Secretary of State. In fact, he was the first “African American appointed to that position”, as stated on Colin Powell (2011). Moreover, Colin Powell is a veteran of the Vietnam War. His personality is vitally important for the history of United States because of many reasons. He was the first to do and to prove a lot of state affairs. It follows that in order to understand his personality better, it is crucial to know his origins and preconditions for him to become a person he is, in addition to learning what exactly he has done during his life. Early Years As it is known, the personality comes from the childhood. Colin Powell was born on April 5, 1937 in New York’s neighborhood of Harlem in the family of Jamaican immigrants. He grew up and graduated from public school in the South Bronx. After graduating, contrary to many of his peers, Colin Powell did not have any aspirations or ambitions in life. The justice should be done to his parents who made him study in college, because exactly there he understood his real calling. While doing his studies on geology at City College of New York, Colin Powell joined Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and soon became commander of his unit. Granted to practicing military activities at college, he found his direction in life, which was military career. (Colin Powell, 2011). Military Service and Vietnam War In 1958, after college graduation, Colin Powell was commissioned to the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant. When serving in the army, due to his conscientiousness, he “managed to make a favorable impression on his superiors”, according to Brown & Wagner (2005, p. 29). Thus, he was assigned to be a battalion adjutant. Powell suited well to this job owing to his natural openness. As far as he was rather successful military man and it was in time of Vietnam War, when Colin Powell was sent to “serve as an adviser to a South Vietnamese infantry battalion patrolling the jungles along the Laos border” (Brown & Wagner, 2005, p. 31). There he got wounded, and additionally, after returning from his first tour of duty, Powell was awarded the combat decoration the Purple Heart. Moreover, a year later he was given his second decoration – a Bronze Star (Colin Powell, 2011). He was called up to his second tour of duty in Vietnam. During this tour, Powell was injured as well, in a helicopter crash. However, even his injury did not prevent him from rescuing his comrades. Consequently, for this feat he was awarded the Soldier’s Medal. On the whole, over his entire military career, according to Colin Powell (2011), he “has received 11 military decorations, including the Legion of Merit.” Of course, he was prone to extraversion, because he was concerned with his military success and seemed to be an unflagging person on his way to reaching his aim to become a lieutenant colonel. Years after the Vietnam War After the war, Colin Powell has managed to achieve a lot. In addition to earning M