I saw that....if McCain wasn't so windy he wouldn't have put the general to sleep.
I noticed the medals. Guy couldn't get another two or three without them running over his shoulder and down his back.
One thing about medals, in the US anyway, is they are put on in order of rank. The more significant the medal the closer to the top. Now, that being said, most of these showboat displays have ribbons that do not rank as high as the run of the mill ones that privates get pretty regular. If I remember right the general's bronze star, V device admittedly, ranked in the second or third row from the top, real close to his air medal, arcom and good conduct medal which would have been not too far behind it, all medals that ordinary soldiers often get awarded. Must of been half a dozen rows of been there medals below the "average" medals.
By the way, why does Britain still have a "Royal" family? Just show isn't it? At least this general is a "real" general. All that fruit salad is in the same line as a lot of pomp and pageantry with figurehead monarchs seems to me. Only this guy is expected to really do something once in a while.
Also by the way: "Petraeus was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, the son of Miriam and Sixtus Petraeus. His mother was an American citizen and his father was a sea captain who had immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands during the initial phase of World War II."
After further study ....I'm bored and can't go fishing today thanks to BP.... I found that the significant awards he has are these:
Defense Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Army Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Defense Superior Service Medal (2)
Legion of Merit (4)
Bronze Star with Valor V
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
He was wounded once..no purple heart. Shot by a unintended rifle discharge while observing some training exercise.
He was too late for Vietnam by the time he got out of West Point, so Bronze with V a pretty low valor award for a field grade officer even though he served as a division commander in attack on Baghdad....not enough chance to build that slot I guess. Strange no mention of an Air Medal.