Eldon Regua
{{Short description|American army general (born 1955)}}
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| name = Eldon P. Regua
| image = Eldon Regua in 2008.jpg
| caption = MG Regua in September 2008
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1955}}
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| birth_place =San Jose, California{{cite news |first=Michelle |last=Hecht |title=The right man for the job |url=http://www.evergreentimes.com/032406/evg_eldon.htm |work=Evergreen Times |publisher=Times Media, Inc. |date=March 24, 2006 |access-date=July 31, 2009}}
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| allegiance = United States of America
| branch = United States Army
*United States Army Reserve
| serviceyears = 1977-2013
| rank = Major General
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| commands = 75th Division (Battle Command Training Division){{cite web|title=Maj. Gen. Eldon P. Regua |url=http://www.usar.army.mil/arweb/organization/commandstructure/USARC/TNG/75BCTD/Leadership/Pages/MajGenEldonRegua.aspx |work=75th Battle Command Training Division |publisher=United States Army Reserve |access-date=July 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727071507/http://www.usar.army.mil/arweb/organization/commandstructure/USARC/TNG/75BCTD/Leadership/Pages/MajGenEldonRegua.aspx |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}
| battles = Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan
| awards = {{Ribbon devices|number=1 |type= |ribbon=Distinguished Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=60}} Distinguished Service MedalOrder 160-08 HRC Ft Knox{{Verify source|date=June 2012}}
{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type= |other_device= |ribbon=Legion of Merit ribbon.svg|width=60}} Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster
{{Ribbon devices|number=5 |type=oak|ribbon=Meritorious Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=60}} Meritorious Service Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster
{{Ribbon devices|number=0 |type= |ribbon=Army Commendation Medal ribbon.svg|width=60}}Army Commendation Medal
{{Ribbon devices|number=0 |type= |ribbon=Army Achievement Medal ribbon.svg|width=60}} Army Achievement Medal
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Eldon Philip Regua{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/106th-congress/878 |title=PN878 — Army |website=U.S. Congress |date=30 March 2000 |access-date=3 December 2020}} (born 1955) is a retired major general in the United States Army Reserve, who last served as Deputy Commanding General/Chief of Staff (Wartime) (Individual Mobilization Augmentee) for Eighth United States Army headquartered in Yongsan, Korea,{{cite web|url=http://www.roa.org/site/DocServer/After_Action_--_SCU_Commissioning_2012_June_16.pdf?docID=37221 |title=After Action Report -- Saturday -- 16 June 2012 |date=16 June 2012 |work=Santa Clara County Unified Chapter #63 |publisher=Reserve Officers Association |access-date=18 July 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} having just completed an assignment as Commanding General, 75th Division (Battle Command Training Division) in Houston, Texas in July 2011.{{cite news |title=General Officer Announcements |url=http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12085 |work=Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense |date=July 21, 2008 |access-date=July 31, 2009}} As of 2010, he was the senior most active, or reserve, non-retired flag or general officer of Filipino American ethnicity.{{cite news|title=Major General Eldon Regua. Highest-ranking Fil-Am Army |url=http://www.asianjournal.com/voice-of-fil-america/72-voice-of-fil-america/5250-major-general-eldon-regua-highest-ranking-fil-am-army.html |newspaper=Asian Journal |date=25 April 2010 |access-date=5 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120220504/http://asianjournal.com/voice-of-fil-america/72-voice-of-fil-america/5250-major-general-eldon-regua-highest-ranking-fil-am-army.html |archive-date=20 November 2010 }} He is also half Mexican American ethnicity.
Biography
Born and raised in San Jose, he grew up with his parents and four brothers and two sisters. His father Felipe (Philip), dropped out of school in the fifth grade, and became a Filipino agricultural laborer who emigrated from the Philippines in 1929. His mother Evangeline, a Mexican American, was born in El Paso, Texas met his father, in 1951. His family eventually settled in the Evergreen District of San Jose in 1968.
As a young boy he and his family and worked the fields picking prunes, walnuts, green beans and apricots also working in an apricot dry yard. In 1973 he graduated from Silver Creek High School. After high school he was admitted to Santa Clara University where he participated in the Army ROTC program and graduate in 1977 earning a B.S. in Commerce in accounting.{{cite web |title=Class Notes, Undergraduate |url=http://www.scu.edu/scm/fall2006/cn-undergraduate.cfm |date=Fall 2006 |work=Santa Clara Magazine |publisher=SCU |access-date=July 31, 2009}} Eventually he would go on and earn Master of business administration degree from Chapman University, and a Master of strategic studies degree from the United States Army War College. All four of his brothers would also go on to earn college degrees.
Following SCU, he became a newly commissioned officer in the Air Defense Artillery Branch, serving initially in Giessen, Germany during the Cold War after his Officer Basic Course at Fort Bliss. He would also work with a tactical evaluation team under Allied Air Forces Central Europe evaluating allied Improved Hawk units.
Following this stint on active duty, he joined the Army Reserve, being promoted several times, serving in multiple units to include 91st Division (Training Support), 63rd Regional Support Command, and the 104th Division (Institutional Training).{{cite journal|year=2008 |title=Maj. Gen. Regua |trans-title=Welcome to the 75th BCTD |journal=The Bulgebuster |issue=Winter 2008/2009 |pages=36 |url=http://www.usar.army.mil/arweb/organization/commandstructure/USARC/TNG/75BCTD/News/Documents/The%20Bulgebuster%20Winter%202%20009.pdf |access-date=2009-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727071602/http://www.usar.army.mil/arweb/organization/commandstructure/USARC/TNG/75BCTD/News/Documents/The%20Bulgebuster%20Winter%202%20009.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-27 }} He was briefly activated in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom during the first half of 2003, and oversaw certification of units heading downrange; this activation also fell under Operation Noble Eagle. His deactivation from active duty, in 2003, was connected to the selection as Chief of Staff and later approval of his promotion to brigadier general by then President George Bush, to the position of Assistant Division Commander (Operations) as well as Commanding General of the 104th Division from 2007 to 2008. He has visited in both Iraq and Afghanistan on several occasions.
He serves as vice president of US Army Programs for NextStep Technology,{{cite web |title=Eldon Regua |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/eldon-regua-6872b53/ |publisher=LinkedIn Corporation |access-date=July 31, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://nextsteptech.us/leadership/ |title=Management Team |year=2011 |work=NextStep Technology |publisher=NextStep Technology, Inc. |access-date=14 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830071329/http://nextsteptech.us/leadership/ |archive-date=30 August 2012 }} Regua recently served on the Secretary of the Army's Reserve Forces Policy Committee. Regua retired from the Army in 2013.{{cite web |url=https://www.army.mil/article/99800/Eighth_Army_deputy_commander_retires_from_Army/ |title=Eighth Army deputy commander retires from Army |author=PVT Jewel Park |date=29 March 2013 |website=army.mil |publisher=United States Army |access-date=25 October 2014}}
On December 2, 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Regua to be the next Representative of the United States to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/116th-congress/2396 |title=PN2396 — Eldon P. Regua — Department of State |website=U.S. Congress |access-date=3 December 2020}} On January 3, 2021, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-03 |title=PN2396 - Nomination of Eldon P. Regua for Department of State, 116th Congress (2019-2020) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/116th-congress/2396 |access-date=2021-01-05 |website=www.congress.gov}}
See also
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References
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External links
- [http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=8355 General Officer Assignments April 2005]
- [http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/army_res_generals_072508w/ Reserve general nominations]
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Category:American military personnel of Filipino descent
Category:American people of Mexican descent
Category:Military personnel from San Jose, California
Category:Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Category:Santa Clara University alumni
Category:United States Army generals
Category:Chapman University alumni
Category:Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States)