"I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut."
Alan G. Poindexter was an American naval officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131, commanding the latter. He died in 2012 following a personal watercraft accident.