This is a grey area. There are hundreds of personnel stateside, (military and civilian) analyzing real time audio and video that is used to exploit targets in the Middle East. Cooks in Italy, support pilots that perform activities in the ME. Doctors and nurses in Ramstein support troops in the ME. This really is a grey area.
They need to find a way to make this stick because the MSM will ignore it
Jail time?
LOL!!
Never happen.
He’s a high-profile democrat in good standing with The Party. As such, he’s untouchable.
Gee, No one is above the law right?
Probably not a winning electoral issue on it’s own, not that many veterans. More on point, I don’t know the answers, did he receive an Operation Enduring Freedom medal? He would be issued one for support (in the Army’s estimation). If not, did he ever wear or claim to have received said medal? If they’re both no there’s probably no crime here. Exaggerations, looks like it, but not likely Stolen Valor Act violations.
A democrat doing time for illegal activity?
That’ll be the day.
“I deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. My battalion provided base security throughout the European theater from Turkey to England”
A “theater of war” in common usage means a place where combat is actually taking place. To say that Enduring Freedom had a “European theater” stretches the meaning of the phrase. No bullets were flying in Italy. There were no IEDs on the road. It was nothing but “la dolce vita” in sunny Italia. Ditto England. Ditto Turkey. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
Nothing unusual here.
A Democrat who is both a liar and an America-hating communist.
When I speak of my USN service I refer to the Cuban Missile Crisis being "my war". But since I served in the blockade on a repair ship deployed to the Caribbean (a floating machine shop with four 5-inch guns to make it a warship) maybe I'll have to call it "in support of" the blockade!
To a 19-year-old Seaman, those were scary times.