More stolen valor

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Congressional candidate Tyler Kistner has repeatedly suggested he saw combat, but he didn’t

During his first bid for Congress in 2020, Republican candidate Tyler Kistner repeatedly suggested he saw combat while in the U.S. Marine Corps, despite military records that say otherwise.

A spokesman says Kistner was referring to the fact that he led combat missions, advising and assisting “partner forces” against violent extremist organizations in the non-combat region of North Africa.

If he saw combat, he would have received a combat action ribbon, and Kistner acknowledges he never earned one. The military considers combat to be engaging with the enemy on the ground in a combat zone.

An ad paid for by the GOP Super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund ran on TV stations for a day saying Kistner had “four combat deployments.” The Congressional Leadership Fund said it shipped an “incorrect version of the ad and fixed it ourselves on the same day.”

https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/10/05/congressional-candidate-tyler-kistner-has-repeatedly-suggested-he-saw-combat-but-he-didnt/

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1. I'm so old, I remember when that used to be important to Republicans

Well, at least insofar as it could be used as a cudgel against a Democratic candidate. For their own candidates, hey, what's a little fudging of your military record? Maybe Tyler didn't quite realize what he was saying when he, uh, embellished shall we say, his record?