What is Eric Shinseki?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Eric Ken Shinseki |image = Eric Shinseki official Veterans Affairs portrait.jpg |imagesize = 240px |order = 7th |title = [[United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs]] |term_start = January 21, 2009<ref name=VABIO>{{cite news|title=VA Official Biography - The Honorable Eric K. Shinseki|publisher=United States Department of Veterans Affairs|date=January 2009|url=http://www1.va.gov/opa/bios/biography.asp?id=76|accessdate=2009-02-08|archive-date=2014-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016071140/http://www1.va.gov/opa/bios/biography.asp?id=76|url-status=dead}}</ref> |term_end = May 30, 2014 |president = [[Barack Obama]] |predecessor = [[James Peake]] |successor = [[Robert A. McDonald]] |birth_date = {{bda|1942|11|28}} |birth_place = [[Lihue]], [[Territory of Hawaii]] |death_date = |death_place = |alma_mater = [[United States Military Academy]]<br />[[Duke University]]<br />[[United States Army Command and General Staff College]]<br />[[National War College]] |profession = [[Soldier]], [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet Secretary]] |branch = [[United States Army]] |allegiance = [[United States|United States of America]] |rank = [[Image:US-O10 insignia.svg|35px]] [[General (United States)|General]] |commands = [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army|Army Chief of Staff]]<br />[[1st Cavalry Division (United States)|1st Cavalry Division]]<br />[[3rd Infantry Division (United States)|3rd Infantry Division]]<br />[[Seventh United States Army]]<br /> [[Allied Land Forces Central Europe]] (General)<br />[[NATO]] Stabilization Force in [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]]<br />[[9th Infantry Division]]<br />[[25th Infantry Division]]<br />[[3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (United States)|3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment]]<br />[[5th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|5th Cavalry Regiment]] |battles = [[Vietnam War]]<br />[[Bosnian War]] |serviceyears = 1965 – 2003 |awards = [[United States Military Academy