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Eric Shinseki
Prior offices
U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Personal
Eric Ken Shinseki (b. November 28, 1942, in Lihue, Hawaii) was formerly the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was confirmed by the Senate on January 20, 2009, by a voice vote.[1] He resigned from office on May 30, 2014, amid controversy over secret waiting lists which delayed care in VA hospitals across the country.[2]
Shinseki previously served in the United States Army for 38 years, as well as sitting on the boards of military contracting companies Ducommun and Honeywell and Hawaiian companies Grove Farm Corp and First Hawaiian Bank.[3]
Biography
Shinseki was born in Lihue, Hawaii, where he attended Kauai High School.[4] He graduated from the United States Military Academy before beginning his 38 year military career. During his service, Shinseki earned his M.A. from Duke University.[5] He served in Vietnam and Bosnia and was injured twice in combat.[4]
Career
Below is an abbreviated outline of Shinseki's academic, profes
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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 of his feet, leaving him with a maimed foot.
In Hawaii, he served at Schofield Barracks with Headq
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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 problem 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 Secretary 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 unit 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 Point, where he graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He also earned a Master of Arts
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