Marine Corps Col. Daniel Yoo will soon become the first Korean American general in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Yoo, who is a Marine Corps fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, was nominated to the the rank of brigadier general, said a U.S. defense official. According to the Korea Times, Yoo most recently commanded the 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division at Camp Schwab in Okinawa, Japan
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Yoo has earned the Bronze Star Medal for outstanding performance as a commander of a U.S. unit in Afghanistan, and was a national security affairs fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.
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