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After receiving his draft notice in 1966, Dan Petrosky began to fulfill his duty to serve his country in uniform.
âMy grandfather fought in WWI, my dad in WWII, and now it was my turn,â he said.
The Columbus, Ohio, native served in the Army from June 1966 to January 2003 and retired as a lieutenant general after more than 37 years. His last position was chief of staff for the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.
He was a produce manager for a grocery store in his native Ohio when he got drafted. After basic training and advanced individual training, he became an assistant to a drill instructor and was teaching basic training. He was offered the opportunity to go to officer candidate school and he took it as an artilleryman. Later he and his buddies decided to go to flight school. He had basic flight instruction at Fort Wolters, Texas, and advanced flight instruction at Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, Georgia.