At a dinner on March 26 honoring more than 600 USC student veterans and members of the university’s long-running ROTC program, Petraeus said that never in the country’s history has a generation of young soldiers served so long in combat or on so many tours of duty abroad.
“The post-9/11 generation of veterans has deservedly become known as America’s new Greatest Generation,” Petraeus said. “USC stands out as a leader in the effort to support our country’s military families, veterans … those who currently serve our nation in uniform and those who will serve in the future.”
USC President C. L. Max Nikias, who hosted the event with Board of Trustees Chairman Edward P. Roski Jr., said he invited Petraeus to speak at the event after first being introduced to him a year ago in Washington, D.C., by Trustee Jane Harman.
“It’s our opportunity to express something we feel every single day on our campuses — sincere gratitude to you, our Trojan veterans and spouses, and members of the ROTC,” Nikias told the crowd, which included uniformed and decorated veterans. “We say it today, but we feel it every day.”
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