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Eric Shinseki (2009-2014)
Eric Ken Shinseki was born in November 28, 1942, in Lihue, Kauai, in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1965, commissioned as a second lieutenant. He earned a Masters of Arts degree in English Literature from Duke University in 1976 and later studied at both the United States Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College.
Shinseki has served in a variety of command and staff assignments throughout the continental United States and overseas, including two combat tours in Vietnam when he earned two purple hearts and a bronze star. He has also served more than ten years in Europe, during and after the Cold War, before returning to the states permanently in 1994. He concluded his service with three simultaneous commands: U.S. Army, Europe and NATO Land Forces, Central Europe, and the NATO-led Peace Stabilization Force.
From 1999 until June 2003, Shinseki served
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Eric Ken Shinseki
General, U.S. Army
Eric Ken Shinseki was born on 28 November 1942 in Lihue, Kauai, in what was then the Territory of Hawaii, to an American family of Japanese Ancestry. His grandparents immigrated from Hiroshima to Hawaii in 1901. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He earned a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Duke University. He was also educated at the Armor Officer Advanced Course; the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; and the National War College.
Military Service
Shinseki served in a variety of command and staff assignments in the Continental U.S. and overseas, including two combat tours with the 9th and 25th Infantry Divisions in the Republic of Vietnam as an Artillery Forward Observer and as Commander of Troop A, 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry Regiment. During one of those tours, he stepped on a land mine, which blew off the front of one
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The highest ranking Asian-American in US military history, Eric K. Shinseki became a visible critic of the Bush administration’s force plan for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, correctly forewarning a bekymmer that would haunt American military planners and policymakers in the years that followed. Barack Obama announced his nomination of Shinseki, a decorated Japanese-American war veteran, to be sekreterare of Veteran Affairs on December 7, 2008—the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Shinseki was born on the island of Kaua’i, Hawaii, to Japanese-American parents on November 28, 1942, during World War II. One of his uncles served in the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat team, the most decorated Army enhet during World War II. Shinseki grew up with his grandparents in the Japanese section of a plantation community and graduated from Kaua’i High School in 1960. He went on to attend the United States Military Academy at West