Eric Ken Shinseki
✓ Source-basedrisingRetired United States Army four-star general, seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Eric Ken Shinseki , born 28 November 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States secretary of veterans affairs from 2009 to 2014 and as the 34th chief of staff of the Army from 1999 to 2003.
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Shinseki at West Point in 1965
Shinseki is pinned with the rank of general by Army chief of staff Dennis Reimer and his wife Patty in July 1997
A 2003 portrait of Shinseki
Shinseki as Army Chief of Staff with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001)
President Barack Obama and guests at signing of bill to grant Congressional Gold Medal to 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team in recognition of their World War II service. Shinseki is at the far right.
In their own words 4
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.
Quoted in Mackubin Thomas Owens, "Marines Turned Soldiers", National Review Online, December 10, 2001
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.
Quoted in "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate" - Page 156 - by Pat Williams, Karen Kingsbury - Religion - 2005
I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
General Eric K. Shinseki to associates; quoted in cite news
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Politicians from United States 6
About this person
Eric Ken Shinseki , born 28 November 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States secretary of veterans affairs from 2009 to 2014 and as the 34th chief of staff of the Army from 1999 to 2003. Shinseki is a veteran of two tours of combat in the Vietnam War, in which he was awarded three Bronze Star Medals for valor and two Purple Hearts. He was the first Asian-American four-star general, and the first Asian-American Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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