Benoît Puga (born in Saint-Mandé, 30 January 1953) is a French général d'armée of the French Army and Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur.He integrated the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in September 1973, following which he joined the school of infantry application in 1975 with a rank of sous-lieutenant.In September 1976, he joined the 1st Chasseur Group at Reims in quality of an infantry section chief (French: chef de section) then platoon missile section chief.From August to October, he conducted a tour at the corps of reconnaissance helicopter unit of the 2e ACR belonging to the VIIth U.S. Army Corps stationed at Nuremberg in Germany. Wikipedia