David Petraeus
David Howell Petraeus AO is a retired American military officer and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a highly decorated fourstar general, serving overyears in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan from July 4, 2010, to July 18, 2011. His other fourstar assignments include serving as the 10th Commander, U.S. Central Command from October 13, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as Commanding General, MultiNational Force Iraq from February 10, 2007, to September 16, 2008. As commander of MNFI, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.
Petraeus was born in CornwallonHudson, New York, the son of Miriam , a librarian, and Sixtus Petraeus, a Frisian sea captain from Franeker, Netherlands. His mother was American, a resident of Brooklyn, New York. His father had sailed to the United States from the Netherlands at the start of World War II. They met at the Seamens Church Institute of New York and New Jersey and married. Sixtus Petraeus commanded a Liberty ship for the U.S.A. for the duration of World War II. The family moved after the war, settling in CornwallonHudson, where David Petraeus grew up and graduated from Cornwall Central High School in 1970.
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