Posted on 03/12/2009 7:57:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait (March 21, 2003) - Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus (right), commanding general, 101st Airborne Division, (Air Assault) looks on as Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, V Corps commanding general speaks to soldiers, following a missile attack drill Thursday afternoon. Pfc. Joshua Hutcheson, 101st Airborne Division Public Affairs staff
Everyone is familiar with the story of how General Petraeus almost lost his life when he was shot through the chest during a live-fire training exercise. Well, the most detailed account I’ve come across thus far can be found in Thomas E. Ricks’ The Gamble.
The Gamble, Chapter 3: Keane Takes Command, Pg 85-88:
“DAVE, YOU’RE SHOT”
Perhaps most important, [Jack] Keane had known Petraeus for years. An advocate of realistic training, Keane loathed seeing soldiers toss grenades as if they were outfielders hurling metal baseballs, instead of in the context of how they would be sued in combat, where people who want to survive don’t stand up in view of the enemy. So he had pushed for “live-fire” exercises, in which soldiers used real bullets while training and moved as if they were on a battlefield. One day in 1991 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Keane and Petraeus were observing just such an exercise, in which a squad was practicing taking down a machine gun bunker. Some soldiers provided suppressive fire while one of their comrades crawled forward from one side and, leaning to one side while still prone, lobbed a hand grenade into the bunker.
Under the cover of the explosion, the grenade thrower turned and ran as fast as he could back to his fellow squad members. He hit the dirt using the butt of his M-16 rifle to break his fall, as he had been taught to do in order to get down quickly. But the soldier, probably distracted by his grenade throwing, had made two mistakes: He had kept his finger on the trigger of his weapon, and the safety was off.
Petraeus, observing from 40 yards away, grunted and stepped back, but didn’t fall. Keane, standing next to Petraeus, looked over. “Dave, you’re shot,” he said. The bullet from the soldier’s weapon had pierced Petraeus in the right side of his chest, just above the A in PETRAEUS on his fatigues, and clipped both a lung and an artery.
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And then hit a General with an AD. F@chen Joe...amazing what they can do.
This General needs to be at the Top and making Clones of Himself./...
I knew a guy shot three times in the chest by 7.62x54 rounds and didn’t even know it until one of his buddies told him he was bleeding.
Bill Frist was the doctor that saved his life.
"Where's you're sargent son? "Blown up sir!" 
Looking thru the Keyword: Petraeus
Found this :
A General for our Times (Why is the British Press the only ones touting OUR General?)
Excellent reading!!! thank you!
See link at #9 also.
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That’s when you can be certain of lunacy at work...Hillary Clinton questioning the honesty of David Petraeus.
That’s a Fact, Jack!
You can be sure they see him as a THREAT...
“The will suspension of disbelief”!! Just how petty and mean the liberal democraps are is astounding. They are not good enough to lick the mud off of General Petraeus’s boots.
“The willful suspension of disbelief”! Just how mean and petty the liberal scum like the hillerys are is just astounding. She (they) are not good enough to lick the Iraqi mud off of General Patraeus’s boots
Sorry for the double post, my trigger finger was twitchy.
Did you do that or is the system having a problem...see #2 and #3...
Oh,...I see you changed the text slightly.
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