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United States Army general

Michael K. Nagata is a retired United States Armylieutenant general.^[1]

Early career

Nagata was commissioned as a second lieutenant in and served as an infantry platoon leader with the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division in South Korea. He graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in and commanded an ODA detachment of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, where he gained a "reputation for coolness under pressure, and for a wry sense of humor."^[2]

Nagata volunteered and was selected for the Intelligence Support Activity in , nicknamed "The Activity", an ultra-secret unit conducting signal and human intelligence gathering for special mission units of Joint Special Operations Command. Nagata spent 15 years in the unit, serving as troop commander until , and operations officer from to He would later serve as squadron commander from to and later unit commander as a colon Biography of william shakespeare.