I don’t know much about this guy...but it seems like he made one statement and quickly admitted it was wrong, with making excuses.
His brief military career was fairly ‘high speed, low drag’ - he was an Airborne Ranger. And I’m sure he found himself alongside people who were in SF - if nothing else, many of his instructors surely wore the insignia. I can see the admiration/hero worship...being so close to the elite group...that he would want to be a part of it.
No excuse - but its not like he was a desk clerk completely making up a resume.
One can now ask that same question of him.
“His brief military career was fairly ‘high speed, low drag’ - he was an Airborne Ranger”
We don't know if he was an ‘airborne ranger.”
Not all in the 82nd went to Ranger school. No all in the 82nd went to jump school.
He very well may have been a desk clerk. I wish there was a true bio I could trust and review.
Any any rate, NO ONE is ever confused as to what he did and with whom. . .never.And if this guy had a bad case of hero worship and overly identified with special ops (which ones, by the way), then he is too weak-minded to serve in the military or ‘lead’ the VA.