Việt Xuan Luong (Vietnamese: Lương Xuân Việt) is a retired United States Army major general. He is the first American officer promoted to general officer rank who was born in Vietnam. [1] He last served as the Commanding General of United States Army, Japan / I Corps Forward.

Mar 3, 2016 · Today, Luong is the 1st Cavalry Division’s deputy commanding general for maneuver and most recently was in Afghanistan. The infantry officer commanded a battalion of 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers in Iraq in 2007–08, and led the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, the storied Rakkasans, into combat in Afghanistan in ...

May 20, 2021 · TOKYO – For the Army’s first Vietnamese-born general officer, the trauma of escaping to America with his family during the Vietnam War was a call to foster a more inclusive military. Maj. Gen. Viet...

Jun 25, 2021 · TOKYO – The 34-year career of the Army’s first Vietnamese-born general officer came to an end on Friday as Maj. Gen. Viet X. Luong relinquished command of U.S. Army Japan to Brig. Gen. Joel...

Apr 30, 2015 · Forty years ago, Viet Luong was a 9-year-old Vietnamese boy fleeing Saigon with his family. Today he's the first Vietnamese-American general in the U.S. Army and is helping...

Sep 30, 2024 · Viet Xuan Luong (Vietnamese Lng Xun Vit) is a Brigadier General in the United States Army. Since March 2016 he has served as chief of staff of United States Army Central. He previously served on the Army staff as director, joint and integration, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Force Dev.

Nov 9, 2021 · Event date and location: November 9, 2021, Camp Springs, MD Major General (Retired) Viet Luong emigrated from Vietnam with his family to the United States in 1975 as a political refugee, upon the fall of Saigon.

May 23, 2016 · WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- Viet X. Luong aspired to join an elite South Vietnamese fighting unit when he was a young boy. He didn't succeed at doing that, but he did become a U.S....

Jun 1, 2017 · Luong Xuan Viet, or Viet Xuan Luong in American vernacular, was only nine years old when he came to the United States as a South Vietnamese refugee (Bowman, 2015). Today, he holds the reigning achievement of being the first-ever Vietnamese-born person to reach the rank of Brig. General in the U.S. Army (Ghandi, 2014).

Brigadier General Luong, a political refugee who came to America in 1975 at the age of nine, is the first Vietnamese American to achieve flag rank and becomes the 117th Asian Pacific American promoted to this status.