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PROMINENT MILITARY PERSONNEL WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES
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Categories of Prominent Artists, Leaders, Visionaries, Athletes and Business People Listed Below
 
  Actors Actresses Animators/Make-Up/Visual Effects  Astronauts Athletes  
  Authors, Editors, etc. Business Leaders Civil Rights Activists Comedians Community Leaders  
  Dancers/Choreographers Directors Diversity Heads Entertainment Executives Fashion Designers  
  Film Festivals Judges Inventors/Scientists Military Personnel Models  
  Newscasters Night Clubs & Promoters P.R./Publicity Photographers Playwrights  
  Poets/Spoken Word Politicians President Bush's APA Appointments Producers Radio D.J.s  
  Screenwriters Stuntmen Teachers Television Shows Visual Artists  

 

MILITARY PERSONNEL

  • REAR ADMIRAL MING CHANG - retired after 34 years of service from the U.S. Navy as the highest ranking Chinese American in the military. Career included assignments in Navy's cruiser and destroyer commands deployed to the Mediterranean, Norwegian Sea, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the Persian Gulf. He's received the Legion of Merit with three gold stars; the Bronze Star; the Spanish Cross of Aeronautical Merit with White Ribbon; and the West German Meritorious Iron Cross First Class. He currently holds a dual post of Vice President and Corporate Director for the Pacific Region at Raytheon International, Inc.
  • COL. YOUNG OAK KIM - Colonel Young Oak Kim became the first Asian American officer to exercise command in a combat battalion. Kim's most famous exploit was a daylight mission in Anzio. Having volunteered to capture German soldiers for intelligence, he and another soldier crawled more than 600 yards directly under German observation posts without cover. They succeeded in capturing two prisoners and obtaining information that significantly contributed to the fall of Rome, for which Kim was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. His 100th, along with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit of its size and length of service in U.S. military history. Kim retired from the U.S. Army in 1972 as a full colonel after 30 years of active duty and became a respected leader in the Japanese American community.
  • CAPTAIN TED LIEU - Captain in the US Air Force
  • BRIGADIER GENERAL CORAL WONG PIETSCH - first Asian American woman to hold the rank of Brigadier General in the Army
  • GENERAL ERIC K. SHINSEKI - 4 Star General (highest ranking Asian Pacific American in the Army. The Kauai native was placed on the Army's fast track after compiling one of the most distinguished records of any Vietnam veteran. Within a few months of graduating from West Point in 1965 Second Lieutenant Shinseki went to Vietnam as an artillery forward observer. He went back for a second tour as commander of a tank squadron. He was wounded three times during those tours. On one occasion Shinseki's injuries were so severe that even his own sergeant assumed he had died in the hospital. Thirty years later, learning that Shinseki had survived, Les Cotton called him "the finest person and the best officer I have ever served with". Shinseki's valorous leadership under fire won him two Distinguished Service Medals, the Bronze Star and several Purple Hearts.
 
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