“...When writing about his five months spent in Afghanistan, Kelly and Horgan point out, Buttigieg marveled at having “more time for reflection and reading than I was used to back home,” saying he would take “a laptop and a cigar up to the roof at midnight to pick up a Wi-Fi signal and patch via Skype into a staff meeting at home.” The Marines note:
The closest he came to combat was ferrying other staffers around in an SUV: In his campaign kickoff speech last April he referred to ‘119 trips I took outside the wire, driving or guarding a vehicle.’ That’s a strange thing to count. Combat sorties in an F-18 are carefully logged. Driving a car isn’t...”
REMF
The closest Mayor Buttplug came to actual combat was when a couple of guys caught Mayor Buttplug gawking at them in the communal shower!