FRIDAY: Gen. David Petraeus joins USC veterans in salute to service
Contact: Merrill Balassone at (213) 740-6156 or balasson@usc.edu.
WHAT: Retired Gen. David Petraeus will join USC student and alumni veterans who have served over the last 60 years. In anticipation of Veterans Day, 6-foot-high displays honoring USC veterans, including former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christropher ’45 and NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden ’97, will be unveiled.
WHO:
• David Petraeus, Judge Widney professor at USC and retired four-star general and former CIA director
• Jeremy Fricke, USC Veterans Association president
• USC students and alum who served in the military from the Vietnam War to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
WHEN: 1:30 to 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6
WHERE: University of Southern California, Hahn Plaza, 3531 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089
PARKING: Call (213) 740-2215 or email balasson@usc.edu to RSVP for parking information.
ABOUT: Gen. David H. Petraeus: General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus is Chairman of the KKR Global Institute and Judge Widney Professor at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining KKR, General Petraeus served over 37 years in the U.S. military, including command of coalition forces in Iraq, command of U.S. Central Command, and command of coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Following his service in the military, General Petraeus served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. General Petraeus graduated with distinction from the U.S. Military Academy and subsequently earned MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
General Petraeus has received numerous U.S. military, State Department, NATO, and United Nations medals and awards, and he has been decorated by 13 foreign countries. He also serves as a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, and as a member of the advisory board of Team Rubicon and a number of other veterans organizations.
