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Cornwall on hudson lies the united states military academy at westpoint. >> it said that he has aspirations to be a leader in the army. >> dave wanted to go to westpoint as far back as i can remember and threw himself into sports and studied and occasionally hanging with the guys. >> like a million other teenagers the kids in cornwall found simple ways to kill time. >> there wasnt much to do in cornwall. lot of times some of us would hang out at the pizza place. >> prima pizza was the local teen...

What dave said he was going to do, he has done it. >> eight months after dave petraeus was confirmed as commander multinational force iraq he was back in washington. >> i hope that every american has a chance to observe general petraeus and i think that they will be convinced that this strategy is succeeding and we need to stay with it. >> i would like to note that this is my testimony. >> he is there to provide an assessment, not to get involved in the politics of exactly what happened. >> mccl...

Weapons training david petraeus met someone special. >> david had a certain legend there. he married the superintendents daughter which gives you some kind of a reputation. >> dave and holly tied the knot months after the young officer graduated near the top of his class in 1974. his new father in law was academy superintendent general william nolt. in. they devoted themselves to building a life around military service. two children, a boy and girl were born as petraeus worked his way up the ran...

"patton." >> we are advancing and not interested in holding on anything except the enemy. we going to hold on to him by the nose and kick him in the ass. we are going to kick the hell out of him all the time and go through him like crap through a goose. >> the beatless broke up and the nation was still deeply involved in the fight against communism in an unpopular war, vietnam. it was against this backdrop, that heather, allen and dave donned their caps and gowns and graduated from high school. ...

Fairly certain david didnt attend. >> davids spare time during the frigid northeast winter was spent on the nearby ski slopes of west point. his father was a skilled skier and dave was no different. >> he was a natural. he took to it as if he had been ski skiing forever. he used to be able to get ski passes to use the slopes at westpoint and we all skied there. i would say most of the kids in the 70 all learned to ski at westpoint by skiing every night. and westpoint would play loud rock music o...

Coke. it was grease. the grease would drip down your arm and we thought it was heaven. >> legend has it, petraeus found a time for a little bit of mischief. >> there was one incident where the physics teacher came out and found his own volkswagen beatle tipped on its side in front of his house. there were rumors that certain boys that were in the physics class may have had a hand in doing that. dave and a few of his best friends were the only guys who took physics that the time. he didnt deny it...

Beatle tipped on its side in front of his house. there were rumors that certain boys that were in the physics class may have had a hand in doing that. dave and a few of his best friends were the only guys who took physics that the time. he didnt deny it but he never admitted it. >> when we return on american commander, david petraeus begins his long and illustrious military career from the halls of westpoint to the battlefields of iraq.

Developed proved successful. today, after the dramatic white house firing of stanley mcchrystal, general petraeus is back in the news and has been hand picked by the president to finish the war in afghanistan and people are, once again, asking just who is this man behind the four stars? 1952. i love lucy. dragnet and the jack benny show ruled the air waves. only 66% of american house holds had telephones and a large pizza cost 75 cents. born in november of that year, david petraeus grew up in co...

He was real fast and he would run all day for you and he was mr. hustle out there. >> walter reed was the assistant soccer coach at cornwall central. >> he would take off and you knew he gusting to get the ball and you knew if he got the ball he would get it to the middle. a fine young man in those days. very motivated and you just knew that whatever he wanted to do he was going to accomplish it. >> a lot of our teachers were retired military. we are close to westpoint. >> i heard him mention a ...

Goose. >> the beatless broke up and the nation was still deeply involved in the fight against communism in an unpopular war, vietnam. it was against this backdrop, that heather, allen and dave donned their caps and gowns and graduated from high school. it didnt come as a surprise to any one when dave got into westpoint. his mother was elate. >> she was proud and happy when dave was accepted to westpoint. >> on the morning of july 17, 1970 dave petraeus marched into the fabled halls of the milita...