Name	Eric Shinseki
Office	7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Scott Gould
Term start	January 21, 2009
Predecessor	James Peake
Office2	34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army
President2	Bill ClintonGeorge W. Bush
Term start2	June 21, 1999
Term end2	June 11, 2003
Predecessor2	Dennis Reimer
Successor2	Peter Schoomaker
Office3	28th Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
President3	Bill Clinton
Term start3	November 24, 1998
Term end3	June 21, 1999
Predecessor3	William Crouch
Successor3	John Keane
Birth date	November 28, 1942
Birth place	Lihue, Territory of Hawaii
Alma mater	United States Military AcademyDuke UniversityUnited States Army Command and General Staff CollegeNational War College
Profession	Soldier
Branch
Allegiance	United States
Rank
Commands	Army Chief of Staff1st Cavalry Division3rd Infantry DivisionSeventh United States ArmyAllied Land Forces Central EuropeNATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina9th Infantry Division25th Infantry Division3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment5th Cavalry Regiment
Battles	Vietnam WarBosnian War
Serviceyears	1965–2003
Awards	Defense Distinguished Service MedalArmy Distinguished Service MedalLegion of Merit (2)Bronze Star (3) Purple Heart (2)Meritorious Service MedalAir MedalArmy Commendation Medal (2) }}

Eric Ken Shinseki (; born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army four-star general who is currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. His final U.S. Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003). He is a veteran of combat in Vietnam, having been left with a maimed foot.

Early life and education

Shinseki was born in Lihue, Kauai in the then Territory of Hawaii, to an American family of Japanese Ancestry. His grandparents immigrated from Hiroshima to Hawaii in 1901. He graduated from the United States 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 United States 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 United States 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 the front off one of his feet.

He has served at Schofield Barracks, Hawai'i with Headquarters, United States Army Hawaii, and Fort Shafter with Headquarters, United States Army Pacific. He has taught at the U.S. Military Academy’s Department of English. During duty with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, he served as the regimental adjutant and as the executive officer of its 1st Squadron.

Shinseki’s ten-plus years of service in Europe included assignments as Commander, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry Division (Schweinfurt); Commander, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division (Kitzingen); Assistant Chief of Staff, G3, 3rd Infantry Division (Operations, Plans and Training) (Würzburg); and Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 3rd Infantry Division (Schweinfurt). The 3rd ID was organized at that time as a heavy mechanized division. He also served as Assistant Chief of Staff, G3 (Operations, Plans and Training), VII Corps (Stuttgart). Shinseki served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Support, Allied Land Forces Southern Europe (Verona), an element of the Allied Command Europe. From March 1994 to July 1995, Shinseki commanded the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. In July 1996, he was promoted to lieutenant general and became Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, United States Army. In June 1997, Shinseki was appointed to the rank of general before assuming duties as Commanding General, Seventh United States Army; Commander, Allied Land Forces Central Europe; and Commander, NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Shinseki became the Army's 28th Vice Chief of Staff on 24 November 1998, then became its 34th Chief of Staff on 22 June 1999. Shinseki retired on 11 June 2003 at the end of his four-year term. His Farewell Memo contained some of his ideas regarding the future of the military. At that time, General Shinseki retired from the Army after 38 years of military service. Shinseki is the only Japanese American (or Asian American, more generally) to be promoted to the Army's top position and is the first four star general of Asian descent in the US military.

Army Chief of Staff

During his tenure as Army Chief of Staff, Shinseki initiated an innovative but controversial plan to make the Army more strategically deployable and mobile in urban terrain by creating Stryker Interim-Force Brigade Combat Teams. He conceived a long term strategic plan for the Army dubbed Objective Force, which included a program he designed, Future Combat Systems. One other controversial plan that Shinseki implemented was the wearing of the Black Beret for all Army personnel. Prior to Shinseki implementing this policy, only the United States Rangers could wear the black beret. When the black beret was given to all soldiers and officers, the Rangers moved to the tan beret.

Shinseki publicly clashed with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the planning of the war in Iraq over how many troops the U.S. would need to keep in Iraq for the postwar occupation of that country. As Army Chief of Staff, General Shinseki testified to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for postwar Iraq. This was an estimate far higher than the figure being proposed by Secretary Rumsfeld in his invasion plan, and it was rejected in strong language by both Rumsfeld and his Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who was another chief planner of the invasion and occupation. From then on, Shinseki's influence on the Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly waned. Critics of the Bush Administration alleged that Shinseki was forced into early retirement as Army Chief of staff because of his comments on troop levels, but the claim is disputed.

When the insurgency took hold in postwar Iraq, Shinseki's comments and their public rejection by the civilian leadership were often cited by those who felt the Bush administration deployed too few troops to Iraq. On November 15, 2006, in testimony before Congress, CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abizaid said that General Shinseki had been correct that more troops were needed.

Post-military career

Shinseki has served as a director for several corporations: Honeywell International and Ducommun, military contractors; Grove Farm Corporation; First Hawaiian Bank; and Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. He is a member of the Advisory Boards at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and to the U.S. Comptroller General. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council of the United States, and the Association of the United States Army.

On December 7, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama announced at a Chicago press conference that once in office, he would nominate Shinseki to become the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 20, 2009 and sworn in the next day.

Awards, Decorations and Badges

{| |- | |Defense Distinguished Service Medal |- | |Army Distinguished Service Medal |- | |Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster) |- | |Bronze Star (with "V" Device and two Oak Leaf Clusters) |- | |Purple Heart (with Oak Leaf Cluster) |- | |Meritorious Service Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters) |- | |Defense Meritorious Service Medal |- | |Air Medal |- |}

{| |- | align=center | |Parachutist Badge |- | align=center | |Ranger Tab |- | align=center | |Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge |- | align=center | |Army Staff Identification Badge |}

Notes

References

VA Official Biography

Official U.S. Army biography, in Bell, William Gardner. ''COMMANDING GENERALS AND CHIEFS OF STAFF 1775-2005: Portraits & Biographical Sketches of the United States Army's Senior Officer'', United States Army Center of Military History, 2005. (ISBN 0-16-072376-0)

Further reading

Chief of Staff of the Army's Remarks to Soldiers Radio and Television after the attacks of September 11th, September 14, 2001, published on ''ARNews''. (URL retrieved May 28, 2006)

Burlas, Joe. "Commentary: Shinseki leaves legacy of irreversible momentum", ''ARNEWS'', June 10, 2003.

Dickey, Connie. "Chief of Staff shares his concerns for the soldier and the Army", ''ARNEWS'', June 28, 1999. From media interview 3 days after becoming Army Chief of Staff. (URL retrieved May 27, 2006)

Moulin, Pierre. Commentary: Eric Shinseki Gallery", ''Fort DeRussy - U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii'', April, 2008. ISBN 978-1-56647-850-2

Siemieniec, Jack. "Chief of Staff expands on Army Vision", ''ARNEWS'', January 31, 2000. (URL retrieved May 27, 2006)

External links

Biography at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs

*NYTimes article on cabinet post

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Eric K. Shinseki Collection (while CSA)

Eric K. Shinseki Gallery Fort DeRussy Army Museum of Hawaii

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name	Jamie McIntyre
occupation	Former Senior Pentagon correspondent for CNN
education	University of Florida
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Jamie McIntyre is a former Senior Pentagon correspondent for CNN. He held this position from 1992 to 2008. Before joining CNN he was host and senior writer for WUSA-TV in Washington D.C.

McIntyre was inside the Pentagon when a plane crashed into it during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

He received a Bachelor's degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida, and in 2002 he was honored as a distinguished alumnus.

In July 2009, McIntyre joined the editorial team at Military.com where he blogged at "Jamie McIntyre's Line of Departure," Military.com's Media and National Policy Journal.

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Official biography

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Charles Lafayette Bartlett (January 31, 1853 – April 21, 1938) was a U.S. political figure, a Democrat, a US Congressman from Georgia.

Bartlett was born in Monticello, Georgia. He graduated in 1870 with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. While at UGA, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He then studied law at the University of Virginia before graduating from the UGA School of Law with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1872, gaining admission to the state bar, and beginning the practice of law in Monticello.

After moving to Macon, Georgia in 1875, Bartlett became the solicitor general for the Macon judicial circuit in 1877 and remained in that position until 1881. He was then elected to the Georgia State House of Representatives from 1882 through 1885.

Barlett served as city attorney of Macon from 1887 until 1892 while also serving in the Georgia Senate in 1888 and 1889. In 1892, he became a Macon circuit superior court judge and served in that position until resigning in 1894 to successfully run for the United States House of Representatives, a position he held for nine more terms until deciding not to run for re-election in 1914.

After his congressional service, Bartlett returned to Macon to practice law and engage in banking. He died there in 1938 and was buried in its Rose Hill Cemetery.

References

''History of the University of Georgia'', Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949, pp.900,937

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