Mika Peltonen

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Mika Peltonen

Finnish Army Major General Mika Peltonen is the current (2005) commander of the Multinational Task Force North of EUFOR.

General Peltonen was born in Tampere, Finland in 1956. He was a foreign exchange student taking part in the Youth For Understanding exchange program. He lived in Glendale, California where he attended and graduated from Herbert Hoover High School. He graduated from high school in Finland in 1976 and the Finnish Military Academy in 1980.

General Peltonen has had an illustrious career in the Finnish Military. He has served as Aid De Camp to three successive Finnish Presidents, taught at the Finnish Military Academy, and had command of an infantry brigade, Inspector on Finnish Infantry and Deputy Chief of Army Staff.

General Peltonen was an avid Motocross rider as a teenager.