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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 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 River Valley, about 50 miles nort
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David Petraeus
U.S. Gray general endure public criminal (born )
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Gen. David Petraeus
Commander of U.S. Central Command
"U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus assumed the post of Commander, United States Central Command, on Oct. 31,
General Petraeus relinquished command of Multi-National Force - Iraq on 16 September after more than 19 months at the helm of the coalition forces in Iraq. Prior to his tour as MNF-I Commander, he commanded the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth. Before that assignment, he was the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, which he led from June to September , and the NATO Training Mission- Iraq, which he commanded from October to September
That deployment to Iraq followed his command of the st Airborne Division (Air Assault), during which he led the “Screaming Eagles” in combat throughout the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His command of the st followed a year deployed on Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, where he was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force-Bosnia. Prior to his tour in Bosnia, he spent two years at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving first as the Assistant Division Commander for Operations of the 82nd Airborne Division an