McRaven graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1977 with a degree in Journalism, and received his master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey in 1991.McRaven is a recognized national authority on U.S. foreign policy and has advised Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and other U.S. leaders on defense issues. He was assigned to SEAL Team Four, where he was given command of an entire platoon. After graduating from high school in San Antonio, he entered the University of Texas, Austin on a track scholarship and joined Navy ROTC. Noted, He was born on November 6, 1955.Noted, Currently We don't have enough information about Cars, Monthly/Yearly Salary etc. In 2012, the Texas Exes honored McRaven with a Distinguished Alumnus Award.Worked extensively with leaders on Capitol Hill, specifically with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and the House Appropriations Committee (Defense) to shape policy issues regarding educational initiatives for Special Operations Forces men and women, health and welfare of special operations families, and operational employment of U.S. Special Operations Forces around the worldHe met his wife, Georgeann, while they were students at UT Austin, and they have three grown children.Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society’s Donovan AwardThe Republic of France’s Legion d’HonneurAuthor of the book SPEC OPs, which has sold over 60,000 copies and has been published in several languagesAdvised foreign Heads of State in Afghanistan (Karzai), Iraq (Maliki), Jordan (King Abdullah), and Yemen (President Salah) on U.S. counter-terrorism policyDeveloped a military theory for why special operations succeed against seemingly overwhelming odds.
From 2015 to 2018, he was the chancellor of The University of Texas System.
In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named McRaven one of the nation’s Top 10 Foreign Policy Experts and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Director Panetta asked McRaven to prepare plans for an attack on the compound.
His career included combat during Desert Storm and both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
William McRaven: We were doing a freefall so a static line parachute is where you hook up inside the aircraft, the freefall you jump out with a parachute on your back. Following the war, he was task group commander in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. But at the end of the day, I looked at the point of vulnerability, and I realized that if we did, if we attempted to do some of those other approaches, we were potentially going to be vulnerable hours out. SPEC OPS continues to be one of the most widely read books on special operations in the military.
He was lying on a hospital bed in his own home on September 11, 2001 when he saw the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.