General david patraeus biography
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David Petraeus
U.S. Army general and public official (born 1952)
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David Howell Petraeus (; born 7 November 1952) is a retired United States Armygeneral and public official. He served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 2011,[3] until his resignation in November 2012.[4] Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 2010 to July 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 2008 to June 2010, and as commanding general, Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) from February 2007 to September 2008.[5] As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.[6][7]
Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 1983.[8] He later served as assistant professor of international relations at the United States Military Ac
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General David H. Petraeus, USA
We’d like to learn something now about your early life. Could you tell us about your dad? What did he do for a living?
David Petraeus: My dad was a Dutch merchant mariner who came to the United States when the Nazis overran Holland and his ship was at sea. They couldn’t obviously go back to Rotterdam, from which they’d sailed, and so they went into New York Harbor eventually. And virtually all of the crew signed on with the U.S. Merchant Marine, and that meant that they had a very long war. It was the service that had the highest per capita casualties in all of our military services. It was treated as part of the military at the time. The casualties were so high in fact that, although the United States could replace the ships — they were producing Liberty ships left and right — they actually couldn’t produce the crews. So very young officers ended up with very high responsibility. My father was actually the captain of a Liberty ship at the age of 29. They did a Murmansk run that took them to northern Russia. They lost a huge number of ships in the convoy. So it was very hazardous war for him. He ultimately then — he met my mother in Brooklyn during that time and they ultimately settled in the Hudson R
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Gen. David Petraeus
Commander of U.S. Central Command
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