VA-10: Hung Cao (R)
Hung Cao is a retired Navy Captain who served in Special Operations for 25 years. He and his wife April are the parents of five children whom they homeschool. After their 13th move across the United States and around the world the family made their home in Purcellville, Virginia.
Cao is a refugee from Vietnam and immigrant to the United States. His family escaped in 1975 shortly before the fall of Saigon. After a brief stay in the United States, his family relocated to West Africa where he was educated in French schools before returning to Annandale, Virginia in 1982.
Cao is a member of the inaugural graduating class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. He was accepted into the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Upon graduation, he served as a deep sea diver and explosive ordnance disposal Officer. As a Navy diver, he salvaged several plane wreckages including the recovery of John F. Kennedy Jr, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and Lauren Bessette.
In his private time, he has served multiple non-profit organizations and gone on mission trips around the world. He and his family established a 501(c)3 which builds beeping Easter Eggs for children with visual impairments.
He returned from his last deployment to Afghanistan in January 2021.
Cao believes Washington has forgotten that it works for the American people and needs a clear reminder, as Ronald Reagan said, that “we the people tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us.”
The above information was sourced from the candidate’s website.
