Ted Cruz’s campaign chair furiously scrubs bio after newspaper questions his combat claims
Source: Raw Story
A Republican lawmaker whos serving as chairman of Sen. Ted Cruzs campaign in Washington state is either unwilling or unable to verify that he is a decorated combat veteran.
State Rep. Graham Hunt (R-Orting), who was elected in 2014 to the legislative seat to which he was appointed the year before, listed three medals on his official and campaign biographies that a military personnel center has no record of him receiving, reported The Seattle Times.
A military spokeswoman pointed out to the newspaper that the personnel centers records are sometimes incomplete but Hunt has been quietly deleting some details about his service record from online biographies since reporters have begun to press him for more information.
Hunt, who traveled out of state earlier this month to meet with armed militants who are occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge, says he was wounded in combat but has offered only vague details about what happened.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ted-cruzs-campaign-chair-furiously-scrubs-bio-after-newspaper-questions-his-combat-claims/
Another day, another lying republican stolen valor phony combat vet.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Up is down...black is white...etc. etc.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)When you are not.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)dishonest, yes.
Salviati
(6,009 posts)I would be fully in favor of the armed forces maintaining a public wall of shame, publicly posting the names of people who have made verifiable claims (such as in their campaign bio...) to medals and awards that they had not earned.
Freedom of speech is a two way street. And letting people know what you yourself have publicly claimed should in no way be considered cruel or unusual.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)A lot.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)whopis01
(3,523 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,369 posts)swilling cheap beer and swapping war stories.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Received a medal for platoon chug-a-lug contest?
Human101948
(3,457 posts)And there was a rash as well!
marble falls
(57,270 posts)the unit motto was, "Freedom and Freedom Fries, Forever!"
We never missed a mess.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)I even call him Ted because he reminds me of Carnival Cruz.
Why do they have to lie? Its not like we're impressed about whether they were in the military or not ... or any of the hundred other 'fabulous adventures' his life has contained ... and the truth ALWAYS comes out, making them look like the psycho's they are.
Why do people (especially ones on the Right) insist on trying to pull one over on everyone, whether they need to or not?
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)Geez, there is even an insurance company that advertises that those who serve deserve better treatment than the rest of us.
So, i think MANY people are impressed by military service. Hence, the fakery.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Ive tried to make this about the genitalia. If you dont have the parts if you dont have the plumbing, then you dont go in.
That may end up being his most famous quote.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)Does he speak Palin?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)jobs that want people with big genitalia. And, everyone loves a war hero.
rladdi
(581 posts)Karl Rowe, They even campaigned against others, Dan Rather is was very accurate in his reporting but the Republicans have many ATTACK radicals with money. That is how Bush won. He is the most incompetent President ever, History will prove that. And now we see that Rumsfield LIED for him too on the wars
marble falls
(57,270 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)when Mitt said his sons were "serving" the U.S. by helping him get elected. What a disconnect from reality.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/romney-sons-serve-country-by-campaigning/
marble falls
(57,270 posts)not worthy!!!!!
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)"more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military." ..... "students wore uniforms, participated in march drills and adhered to a strict hierarchy. The culture, he told the biographer, meant he "always felt that I was in the military."
...Trump did not serve in Vietnam because of medical deferments for bone spurs in his heels (which he showed D'Antonio during their interviews) and later, a high draft number: 356 out of 366.
"My number was so incredible and it was a very high draft number. Anyway so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people," he told Mr. D'Antonio.
"He's not a war hero," Trump said at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit when moderator Frank Luntz brought up McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Immediately modifying his original remarks, Trump added, "He's a war hero 'cause he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, OK?"
kairos12
(12,875 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)No doubt in my mind it's a big deal to most all who earned their medals. And of course it's a big deal to many other people.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)maybe he just doesn't know how stupid, disgusting and cowardly he is?
seriously, anyone want to trust this imbecile with nuclear launch codes?
snort
(2,334 posts)Back during the Viet Nam war, I made the choice to send a dozen of my best soldiers to take an unprotected ridge, or so I thought. Suddenly, a piece of heavy equipment that the enemy had somehow commandeered came crashing over the top of the ridge and crushed those men. The enemy leaped out of the back of the dump truck and sprayed those men with lighter fluid and burned them before my horrified eyes. I lost 7 GI Joes that morning. Milk and cookies made me feel better about it, so no PTSD.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)why delete it
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Having known this individual for many years (and, knowing he often stretched the truth to impress) Google and I spent some time together to see if that could possibly be true. After checking multiple sources, I was unable to find any mention of any medal, although I'm sure he received the more common medals of achievement. NONE.
Now, I could see them forgetting to record some battle medals, but the Purple Heart?
Hmmmm! I'd lay money down that he was also a Republican.
Kennah
(14,315 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)or verify that he is lying.
He would remember most of those he served with.
edit:::: Maybe he served in combat with Track Palin or Billo?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)From the story linked in the OP.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Statement from Rep. Graham Hunt regarding article in The Seattle Times
Rep. Graham Hunt, R-Orting, released the following statement in response to the January 23 article in The Seattle Times entitled, Combat veteran? Records fail to back state lawmakers claims.
I have been completely transparent with Mr. Brunner about my military service. I am a combat veteran, and served my country overseas in multiple deployments to the Middle East, including to Iraq and Afghanistan. Records with the Air Reserve Personnel Center were not automated in 2001 and 2003 as they are now, so I do not have a complete copy of all my records. I do, however, have records of the following medals I received:
Air Force Achievement Medal
Air Force Expeditionary Service Medal
Combat Readiness Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Air Reserve Force Meritorious Service Medal, 2 Devices
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
I am proud to have served this country honorably in the armed forces, and will continue to do so in my service as a state representative.
http://houserepublicans.wa.gov/uncategorized/statement-on-seattle-times-article/
jmowreader
(50,565 posts)The highest thing on here is an Air Force Achievement Medal, which is a noncombat award. The government buys these things by the skid, they issue so many of them. I have four of the Army's equivalent...and I have NO idea what the hell I did to get the fourth one.
An Expeditionary Service Medal is issued for going to an area where combat is.
The Combat Readiness Medal is given for maintaining top proficiency on a "large weapon system" (not a machinegun, but being part of a ground crew on an airplane would work) for two years straight.
The National Defense Service Medal is awarded to everyone who serves during time of conflict. You don't have to get within a thousand miles of the war, just being in the service is enough.
The Air Reserve Force Meritorious Service Medal is a "good conduct" award. In the Army this is called a Good Conduct Medal. Be a good boy for three years, and you get one. Two devices - three awards - means he was good for nine years.
The Armed Forces Reserve Medal is issued for being in the reserves. It's a "service award."
So...we're looking at a totally ordinary airman.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I don't think any of his statements will persuade reporters to stop pursuing the truth about this.
jmowreader
(50,565 posts)I have an Army of Occupation Medal, an Army Service Ribbon, an NDSM and an Overseas Service Medal, and none of them came with paperwork attached. These "I was there!" awards are authorized if your record shows you were in a certain place at a certain time.
I also have an Army Commendation Medal, four Army Achievement Medals, a Humanitarian Service Medal and an NCO Professional Development Ribbon with "2" device (to show I went to two different schools) and those all came with either General Orders or some other documentation, like a Service School Evaluation Report for the NCOPD ribbon. Most things that are called "medal" also are issued with a certificate that says what you did.
This eight-ball's problem isn't that HE doesn't have records of those awards, but that St. Louis doesn't. If that shit ain't in the National Personnel Records Center, you don't have it...which is why the last thing you do before you get out is to go to Personnel with all the orders for your promotions and awards, and make sure everything you were awarded appears on your discharge certificate.