Has Gen. Petreus ever been in combat? The kind in which you're getting shot at?

[zonkers]

Just wondering.

[havocmom]

1. .

[atreides1]

2. According to this not really

It's from Wikipedia:


Although Petraeus did not see combat before his 2003 deployment to Iraq, he completed three overseas assignments short of war earlier in his career. In 1995, his Georgetown fellowship was cut short when he was assigned to the United Nations Mission in Haiti Military Staff as its Chief Military Operations Officer during Operation Uphold Democracy. Four years later, as assistant division commander for operations, he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait as part of Operation Desert Spring, the continuous rotation of combat forces through Kuwait during the decade after the Gulf War.

During 2001-02, as a brigadier general, Petraeus served a ten-month tour in Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of Operation Joint Forge. In Bosnia, he was the NATO Stabilization Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations as well as the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force, a command created after the September 11 attacks to add a counterterrorism capability to the U.S. forces attached to the NATO command in Bosnia.

Though he was shot:

Upon promotion to lieutenant colonel, Petraeus moved from the office of the Chief of Staff to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)'s 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment from 1991-93. As battalion commander of the Iron Rakkasans, he suffered one of the more dramatic incidents in his career when, in 1991, he was accidentally shot in the chest during a live-fire exercise when a soldier tripped and his rifle discharged. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, where he was operated on by future Senator Bill Frist. The hospital released him early after he did fifty push ups without resting, just a few days after the accident.

[ck4829]

3. I remember reading that General Jack Keane shot him once

You know, the same guy who is the architect of the surge.

[jobycom]

4. Keane was standing beside him when he was shot.

Shortly after taking command of a battalion in the 101st, Petraeus was watching an infantry squad practice assaulting a bunker with live grenades and ammunition. Forty yards away, a rifleman tripped and fell, hard. Petraeus never saw the muzzle flash. The M-16 round struck just above the "A" in his uniform name tag on the right side of his chest, and blew through his back. Had it hit above the "A" in "U.S. Army," on the left side over his heart, he would have been dead before he hit the ground.

He staggered back and collapsed. Standing next to him was Brig. Gen. Jack Keane, the assistant division commander, who by 2003 had become the Army's four-star vice chief of staff. "Dave, you've been shot," Keane told him. "I want you to keep talking. You know what's going on here, David. I don't want you to go into shock."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/006108.php

[Ian David]

5. Was Jack Keane the guy who taught Cheney how to hunt quail? n/t

[hootinholler]

6. Dunno, but he wears the Bronze star with V device

The V or Valor device distinguishes a Bronze Star earned in combat from one earned for other reasons.

-Hoot

[tabasco]

7. He got a Bronze Star but never fired a shot in combat.

He got the Bronze Star as a division commander (2-star general) but was never in close combat.

Judge for yourself whether he deserved such a high award or whether it was generals taking care of each other.

Who awarded him the Bronze Star? TOMMY FRANKS.

[zonkers]

8. I like m Generals to have some combat experience. It just don't see right in that profession.

And that Bronze Star story sound pathetic.

[soothsayer]

9. He's less of a soldier type and more of a politico. He aspires to be prez!