1. John Grinder then entered the United States Army and served as a captain in the US Special Forces in Europe during the Cold War; following this he went on to work for a US intelligence agency.

1. John Grinder then entered the United States Army and served as a captain in the US Special Forces in Europe during the Cold War; following this he went on to work for a US intelligence agency.
John Grinder's dissertation, titled On Deletion Phenomena in English, was published by Mouton in 1976.
John Grinder engaged in undergraduate teaching, graduate teaching, and research.
John Grinder published several research papers with Paul Postal on the syntactical structures relating to "missing antecedents" or missing parasitic gaps for the pronoun.
John Grinder co-authored, with Suzette Elgin, a linguistics text book titled A Guide to Transformational Grammar: History, Theory, Practice.
In 2005, John Grinder published Steps to an Ecology of Emergence with Tom Malloy and Carmen Bostic St Clair in the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.
John Grinder left a lasting impression on Pucelik and was later dubbed 'the real genius'.
Some of Bandler and John Grinder's books went out of print for a while due to legal problems between the co-authors.
In 2001, John Grinder published Whispering in the Wind with a "set of recommendations as to how specifically NLP can improve its practice and take its rightful place as a scientifically based endeavor with its precise focus on modeling of the extremes of human behavior: excellence and the high performers who actually do it".
John Grinder has since begun to strongly encourage the field to make a recommitment to what he considers the core activity of NLP: modeling.