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Eric Shinseki Biography

Eric Ken Shinseki (/ʃɪnˈsɛki/; born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014). His final U.S. Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003). Shinseki is a veteran of two tours of combat in the Vietnam War, in which he was awarded three Bronze Stars 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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If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Change, Dislike, Ifs, Irrelevance

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

Bleeding, Dying, Iraq, Soldier, Soldiers

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

1980S, Army, Back, Field, Fields, Team

I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

Indefensible, Integrity, Leadership, Rarely, Responsibility, Years

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. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Arrogance, Commitment, Hollow, Leader, Mistrust

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

Being The Best, Employee, Employees, Importantly, Position, Veteran

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Arrogance, Hollow, Leadership, Mistrust, Vacuums

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Change, Inspirational, Irrelevance, Like

I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

Figure, Order, Required, Soldier, Soldiers, Would Be

It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. . . Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world- respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

America, Greatest, Mankind, Men, Military