In a new fire report, GOP Senator Tom Cotton is beaten up for previous claims he served as an Army ranger – but he had to return to his first Congressional run to do so in 2012.
« I am Infantry officer and Army Ranger, « Cotton, then an Army reservist who ran for Congress after four years of infantry service that included two tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, said in an interview with an Arkansas news channel in 2011.
According to Salon.com, Cotton was never a member of the 75th Elite Ranger Regiment, merely a graduate of the Army’s Ranger School, a tactical infantry course that thousands of service members attend annually.The report that none Examples cited of Cotton repeating the claim of ranger status in his Senate run in 2014 or in the years thereafter met with angry reaction from Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Of the Spec « Hey SenTomCotton, if you’re not wearing those berets, you shouldn’t call yourself a ranger, » Crow tweeted over a photo of himself in the unit’s distinctive headgear. « Truth is important. »
In his current Senate biography, 43-year-old Cotton, a Trump-supportive Conservative who is seen as a future GOP presidential candidate, does not claim ranger status – but closes the ranger, among other things -Tab one, the badges that were given to Ranger School graduates were decorations.
« Senator Cotton has graduated from Ranger School, » Cotton spokeswoman Caroline Tabler said in an email to Salon, » and is more of a ranger than a salon reporter like you ever will be. «
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