and also served as national security adviser to president george w. bush. david: admiral, great to see you again. we are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. there are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk to you about service itself. and i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. you grew up in a family of service. tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. adm. mcraven: first, thank you for the invitation to join you here today. this is terrific. i certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. you are right, i kind of came by it naturally. my father was a world war ii fighter pilot. flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because, at the time, when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires.
this is about an hour. admiral, great to see you again. we are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. publicre plenty of issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. with how yourt came by service. you came by it naturally, you grew up in a family of service. tell me about your dad, who was an interesting person. thank you forn: the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. i enjoy spending time with you and your students. i came by it naturally, my ii fireas a world war pilot and fighter flew spitfires, a british plane. we entered the war, we did not have planes so the british loaned us spitfires. my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii, he was an army surgeon. my dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world
there are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. and i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. you grew up in a family of service. tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. adm. mcraven: first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. i certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. you are right, i came by it naturally. my father was a world war ii fighter pilot. flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. but my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. he was an army surgeon. my dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said, i remember what got me in the service. it was
mr. axelrod: admiral, great to see you again. we are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. there are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. and i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. you grew up in a family of service. tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. adm. mcraven: first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. i certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. you are right, i came by it naturally. my father was a world war ii fighter pilot. flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. dad flew that for about two years during the war. but my grandfather also served in world
quite an interesting person. adm. mcraven: thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. i certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. you are right, i came by it naturally. my father was a world war ii fighter pilot. flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane. because at the time when we entered the war, we did not have plans to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. but my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. he was an army surgeon. my dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. it was when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i board the trains in his small town. he said there was such a sense of pride, there was son such a sense of duty and patriotism that it was infectious. in addition to obviously watching his father, that really spurred him to join the military a