John D. Altenburg
| John D. Altenburg, Jr. | |
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| Born | June 10, 1944 |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1968–1970 1973–2001 |
| Rank |
 Major General
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| Unit |
9th Infantry Division (1968–70) JAG Corps |
| Commands held | Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Army |
| Battles/wars | Vietnam War |
| Other work | Lawyer |
John D. Altenburg, Jr. (born June 10, 1944) is a lawyer for the U.S. Army and a retired Major General. In December 2003,Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld named Altenburg as the appointing authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo. He resigned, effective November 10, 2006.
Altenburg grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended Chaminade High School, before his parents moved to Detroit, Michigan in his senior year. While living in the Detroit area, he graduated from Redford St Mary's High School in 1962. From 1960 to 1965, Altenburg worked as a camp counselor at a Hamilton County, Ohio Catholic summer camp, Fort Scott Camps. He earned his B.A. in English and International studies at Wayne State University in 1966. He taught English at the Elder High School in Cincinnati from 1967 to 1968, the spring of 1970, and the 1970 Summer Enrichment Program.
He entered the US Army in June 1968, serving as an enlisted soldier at Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and finally Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division in the Mekong Delta until honorably discharged in March 1970. He enrolled at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where received his J.D. in 1973.
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