Porter Halyburton, a retired highly decorated US naval officer, was captured in 1965 while flying an F-4B Phantom II and spent seven-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Following his release in February 1973, he earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and taught strategy and policy, international relations, and leadership and ethics at the US Naval War College. He currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Marty; they have three married children.