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David Petraeus (born November 7 , 1952 ) is a well-respected Lieutenant General in the United States Army who is considered a warrior intellectual. From 2004-2005, he was given the crucial task of building and training Iraq's security forces. Petraeus commanded the 101st Airborne Division during the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq and during that unit's occupation of Mosul into mid- 2004 . Petraeus has been widely lauded for his effectiveness in administering Mosul, where public order decayed rapidly in 2004 soon after the 101st left. In June of 2004, Petraeus was charged with the task of training the new Iraqi Army and security forces as commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq . He relinquished the post in September of 2005. Petraeus then assumed command of the Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth in October of 2005. CAC has responsibility for training, doctrine, and lessons learned analysis. Before his tour in Iraq, he was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the Deputy Commander of the US Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force – Bosnia. Petraeus was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He has held leadership positions in airborne, mechanized, and air assault infantry units in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Well-educated, 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. He subsequently earned MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and later served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the US Military Academy. His PhD dissertation dealt with the influence of Vietnam on military thinking regarding the use of force. He also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University. He has been wounded at least twice in the line of duty, once in a Live-fire Exercise in 1991 and again in a hard landing after a parachute jump where he broke his pelvin. Petraeus and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter. AWARDS
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