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To: Kaslin

Dorms? Group showers?

Military records reviewed by CNN show that Buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks.

While it was partly a desk job at Bagram Air Base, he also worked as an armed driver for more than 100 trips his commander took into Kabul.

"Look, it's not like I killed (Osama) Bin Laden, right?" Buttigieg said. "I don't want to overstate what my role was, but it certainly is something that was dangerous."

He said he was often assigned the role as driver, which they jokingly referred to as "military Uber," because he was trained to fire a rifle to keep watch for ambushes. Yet explosive devices along the roads presented equally grave danger.

"There had to be at least two people with rifles in the vehicle and I was one of those in my unit who was rifle qualified," Buttigieg said. "It often fell to me to make sure that the vehicle was either being driven or was being guarded properly."

52 posted on 05/26/2019 12:05:02 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

Officers were never drivers in the Army. Perhaps the Navy men here can confirm or correct.


59 posted on 05/26/2019 2:33:10 PM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: BTerclinger
"There had to be at least two people with rifles in the vehicle and I was one of those in my unit who was rifle qualified,"

What a retard.

61 posted on 05/26/2019 2:37:33 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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