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MG John L. Fugh, a former Army TJAG has died.  Here is a link to the Washington Post obituary.Gen. Fugh, a native of Beijing, was the first Chinese American general officer in the U.S. Army.

Maj. Gen. John L. Fugh, who served as the Army’s top uniformed lawyer in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War and later had a successful career in the private sector as China liaison to major corporations, died May 11 at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda after a heart attack. He was 75.

Gen. Fugh (pronounced "foo"), the first Chinese American general officer in the U.S. Army, was a Beijing native who left China with his family after the Communist takeover in 1949. He spent his 33-year military career in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, including a tour of duty in Vietnam as a judge advocate at the height of the war.

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