Sen. Tom Cotton campaigned on his "experience as an Army Ranger" -- but he didn't have any

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Arkansas senator has repeatedly said he served as "a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan." That's not true
By ROGER SOLLENBERGER
JANUARY 23, 2021 12:20AM (UTC)

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Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has accrued a resume tailor-made for a Republican politician: He leapt from a small-town Arkansas cattle farm to Harvard University and then Harvard Law School; he left a leading New York firm to join the military after George W. Bush's re-election; he was discharged after nearly eight years and two war-zone deployments as an Army captain and decorated hero — including two commendation medals, a Bronze Star and a Ranger tab.

But when Cotton launched his first congressional campaign in 2012, he felt compelled to repeatedly falsify that honorable military record, even as he still served in the Army Reserve.

In his first run for Congress, Cotton leaned heavily on his military service, claiming to have been "a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan," and, in a campaign ad, to have "volunteered to be an Army Ranger." In reality, Cotton was never part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, the elite unit that plans and conducts joint special military operations as part of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.

Rather, Cotton attended the Ranger School, a two-month-long, small-unit tactical infantry course that literally anyone in the military is eligible attend. Soldiers who complete the course earn the right to wear the Ranger tab — a small arch that reads "Ranger" — but in the eyes of the military, that does not make them an actual Army Ranger.

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/22/sen-tom-cotton-campaigned-on-his-experience-as-an-army-ranger--but-he-didnt-have-any/

So in other words he's a fucking fake..............are you going to send another letter to Iran and have more of your fellow traitors circumventing a sitting president like you did to Obama, your still a POS..............I'm more of a patriot than you are.................

[librechik]

1. So that 100% Cotton douchebag is actually 100% polyester? I am shocked!

still not buying it.

[jimfields33]

4. Perhaps next election, he he won't run unopposed

This is great material but unless you have a challenger, it’s not going anywhere.

[FeelingBlue]

2. Can that be considered...

Stolen valor??

[Iliyah]

3. WOW . . ..

the delusion continues in the republican party, and their constituents are just as delusional.

[BlueStater]

5. Did he see combat?

Unless he lied about being in a war zone, I doubt most people will care.

It doesn’t matter. He was a Senate dead-ender even before this information came out.