Meet Bert Mizusawa: Bert Mizusawa is a retired U.S. Army Major General, a decorated combat veteran, and a lifelong public servant who has spent his entire life defending our country and its Constitution.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a military family, Bert spent his childhood moving across Europe, Asia, and the United States before the family settled in Hampton, Virginia, where he graduated from Kecoughtan High School.
Bert went on to West Point, graduating in 1979 as the top man in his class. Commissioned as an Infantry officer, he became an Airborne Ranger and took command of the Army's most forward-deployed combat unit: the Joint Security Force at Panmunjom on the Korean Demilitarized Zone. In November 1984, when a Soviet defector fled across the Military Demarcation Line under fire from North Korean soldiers, Bert personally exposed himself to enemy fire to lead the defector to safety. For his exceptional valor and gallantry in action, he was awarded the Silver Star, one of our nation's highest honors for combat heroism.
Over the next three decades, Bert kept serving at the highest levels of our government and military. He earned a law degree from Harvard and a master's in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, worked on the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, and led the Army's first cyber command before earning promotion to Major General in 2011. He retired from the Army in 2015 after 36 years of service.
Bert's service didn't end in uniform. In 2016, he became a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and in 2020 he was appointed Senior Adviser for National Security Technology and Business Integration at the CIA.
Now, Bert is running for the U.S. Senate because Virginia deserves a leader who has spent his life in service to this country, not to himself. He's fighting for a strong national defense, secure borders, energy independence, fiscal responsibility, and a return to constitutional government. HELP BERT MIZUSAWA! |