Born and raised in San Jose, he grew up with his parents and four brothers and two sisters. His father Felipe (Philip), dropped out of school in the fifth grade, and became a Filipino
agricultural laborer who emigrated from the
Philippines in 1929. His mother Evangeline, a Mexican American, was born in
El Paso, Texas met his father, in 1951. Eventually he would go on and earn
Master of business administration degree from
Chapman University, and a Master of strategic studies degree from the
United States Army War College. All four of his brothers would also go on to earn college degrees. Following SCU, he became a newly commissioned officer in the
Air Defense Artillery Branch, serving initially in
Giessen, Germany during the
Cold War after his Officer Basic Course at
Fort Bliss. He would also work with a tactical evaluation team under
Allied Air Forces Central Europe evaluating allied
Improved Hawk units. He was briefly activated in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom during the first half of 2003, and oversaw certification of units heading
downrange; Regua recently served on the Secretary of the Army's Reserve Forces Policy Committee. On December 2, 2020, President
Donald Trump nominated Regua to be the next
Representative of the United States to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. On January 3, 2021, his nomination was returned to the President under
Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the
United States Senate. ==See also==