fits in well with many other republicans because he lies like many of them do.

He carried a bullet in his arm and didn't worry about infection and other complications? Gave up a purple heart because he didn't want to report it? Weird. William of Occam and his razor says...nah.

Every person with a brain should know this by now.

and he told the ranger he’d just shot himself to cover up a war wound. This guy is a special kind of stupid, or believes the voters are.

that's really what that story says

...when are Republicans.

But you gotta appreciate his desire to keep his platoonmates from getting dragged through the mud because... Sheehy is a weird and whacky liar who needlessly makes things up for no apparent reason...?

Who knows what happened... I'm gonna guess he shot himself accidentally in Afghanistan...

But Iʻm leaning toward he shot himself by accident and didnt want that getting out because he sounds like a dumbass.

Which he does anyway, because what kind of a dumbass lets a gunshot wound with a bullet lodged in his body go untreated…why ??

I really deeply hope John Tester prevails.

I'm kind of angry he qualifies for any kind of VA Health care.

Why would someone honorably discharged from the military not be eligible for the VA?

I was referring to that he was claiming an illegal discharge of a gun leading to injury now being claimed as from "war". He was clearly injured after illegally bringing a loaded gun into a park or forest. That all begs the question around his 'honor'.

I think he shot himself in a national park years later and was able to get medical treatment without a gun shot report being made. Regardless, he's a nut like all current Republicans. If somehow, someway it did happen in the Stan, that's not tough. That's fucking stupid.

...but never reported it? Aversion to purple hearts?

Was he bleeding when cited by the Park Ranger in 2015? A year after he mustered out? Any hospital records of this?

More stolen valor by a whackadoodle Trumper? Did he really serve as a Seal or was he just a low-level grunt? Did he even go to Afghanistan as a member of the US Military?

Questions must be answered and fact checked.

Seems unlike he wouldn't have been outed by now if that was the case.

All I was able to find was this:
graduated at the top of his U.S. Naval Academy and Army Ranger School classes, sustained multiple injuries while serving in the Navy, and ultimately was “medically separated” from the military in 2014. The next year, Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke — also a former SEAL — awarded Sheehy a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, the first time the two met, according to Sheehy’s campaign.

He completed several deployments and hundreds of missions as a Navy SEAL Officer and Team Leader, deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, and the Pacific region. Sheehy was involved in dozens of engagements with enemy forces, earning him multiple combat decorations, including the Bronze Star with Valor for Heroism in Combat and the Purple Heart Medal.

A graduate of the Naval Academy class of 2008, he was the first Midshipman to participate in the U.S. Army Special Operations exchange program and the first to graduate from the elite U.S. Army Ranger School. Immediately after graduation, Sheehy was commissioned into the U.S. Navy and completed SEAL training.

personnel file. If he was "medically discharged" one would think somebody might have noticed an extra bullet or wound.

of that material. But do keep trying. I need the laughs with this absurd story.

Is the theory his opposition did zero research nor anyone else? Highly unlikely a serving Congressman claims to have be a Navy SEAL and wasn't.

"army ranger", for one.

Citations are useful pieces of information, so I do not understand your apparent aversion to them.

You're free to Google his name and read the top few new stories like I did.

I didn't save the links.

If he went through ranger training he would indeed have a ranger tab.

The fabrications look familiar.

Second, I think he’s a great candidate for them to be distracted by. He’s a walking talking shitshow.

Makes me even happier about my monthly donations to camp Tester.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/testerforsenate

part of him kick in?

Afghanistan?

And nobody in his platoon noticed his arm bleeding? Does this nitwit really think he could get by with covering the wound with a plaster, and not a major wrapping to stanch the bleeding?

Or that he wouldn't have been crying non-stop to his platoon about getting hurt, like all cowards do?

laughing it up as they threatened to beat the blindfolded/handcuffed/bloody Iraqi.

That's the very definition of cowardice in my mind.

Seems like you have possible cruelty and cowardice confused.

Although I can't even say that for sure, was he a wanted terrorist or IED bomber who fought during his capture?
"blindfolded/handcuffed" is not a unusual was to keep a prisoner until he reached holding.


My major memory of SEAL Team members is more like this:

Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor
Monsoor was standing ready for the attack when an unseen insurgent on the ground lobbed a grenade onto the rooftop. The grenade hit and bounced off of Monsoor's chest. The two other SEALs in the position were covering other sectors and unaware of what had happened.
Monsoor was the only one who could have escaped the grenade, but he instead jumped on it, sacrificing himself to save his two teammates. He later died of his wounds.


US Navy Lt. Michael Murphy
After the SEALs set up their observation post close to their insertion point and to a village, some shepherds discovered their position. After a debate among themselves, the SEALs decided to let the shepherds live and started exfiltrating the area.
But the enemy was on their heels. Two SEALs were killed in the ensuing firefight, and because of the high mountains surrounding the valley, the SEALs couldn't contact their headquarters and alert them of their situation.
So a wounded Murphy stepped into the open and used his satellite phone to notify his superiors. He suffered mortal wounds but completed the call while firing at the enemy, a last act of selfless valor that earned him the Medal of Honor.

The Iraqi was about 5 feet tall and the SEALs were yuking it up taking photos to send home to their wives/girlfriends to bind for a coffee table book.

Do you not remember the photos? Plenty more.

Not sure I see where they "threatening to hit him again"
Were they saying it in Arabic so he understood them?

As for any cause for celebration, SEAL Teams are usually tasked with hunting down high level targets, they may be happy they have caught one they have been after for awhile.
He could be a Al-Qaeda or Baathist bomb maker responsible for 100's of US casualties for all I know & I suspect all you know.

Though they have alarmed SEAL commanders, the photographs found by the AP do not necessarily show anything illegal, according to experts in the laws of war who reviewed photos at AP's request.

Gary Solis, a former Marine Corps prosecutor and judge who teaches at the United States Military Academy, said the images showed "stupid" and "juvenile" behavior — but not necessarily a crime.

No one gets to be a Tier 1 Operator who is a "wuss" and zero wusses make it through SEAL training.

The attrition rate for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, which is the initial training program for Navy SEALs, is notoriously high. While exact figures may vary from year to year, it is widely reported that around 75% of candidates do not successfully complete the training

You can worship them and Eddie G if you like.

Quite common for captured terrorists to have wounds from the fight that lead up to their capture.

Can't even make up a half believable lie.

He's basically djtj without the cocaine.

Has anybody actually seen his military file? His DD214, or whatever the navy uses?

He could just have said I broke the law and was fined and learned my lesson. Instead he invents a unbelieve story that you might expect from an 8 year old. No gun that I know of built in the 60 years or so can go off from loading luggage if standard practices are followed.

You were wounded in action but didn't tell anyone about it.... then for some reason you lied to a park ranger about accidentally shooting yourself. What a fucking moron. Typical republican lying his ass off.

congress get to decide to award a purple heart, or a bronze star? Or was that just sloppy writing (congressman zinke awarded him. .)??? I was just reading through the regs, and can find nothing about that.

An awardee could have someone outside the chain of command present the award to them in a ceremony, but the presenter is not the person who authorized the award.

remembered, which was why that sentence surprised me. I despise zinke.

current congress.

1. Was shot in Afghanistan under really shady circumstances (eg. a drunken brawl, an unauthorized "mission", etc), covered it up, and the incident at the park is exactly as he reports now.

or

2. Was not shot in Afghanistan, and attempted to use the park injury as a prop in his political campaign with a BS service story and was busted and is lying through his teeth (badly) to cover that up now.

Neither of the above is a good look, both are self-serving, and both show he can not be trusted.