{"id":162777,"date":"2024-11-05T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=162777"},"modified":"2024-11-04T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:25:15","slug":"records-do-not-support-tim-sheehys-shot-in-afghanistan-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162777","title":{"rendered":"Records do not support Tim Sheehy’s ‘shot in Afghanistan’ claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim Sheehy is one of the Republican candidates for the US Senate. Sheehy claimed that he was shot in the arm in Afghanistan during combat. However, a former park ranger said that that Sheehy shot himself at Glacier national park. When asked if there were any military records backing his claims of being shot in Afghanistan, Sheehy admitted that there was none.<\/p>\n

From The Guardian:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sheehy has maintained that he was shot in the arm during combat in Afghanistan \u2013 and questioning that account amounts to false accusations of stolen valor.<\/p>\n

But an ex-ranger at Glacier national park in Montana\u2019s Rocky Mountains has publicly recounted how Sheehy shot himself at the park in 2015 before going to a hospital for emergency treatment. The ranger subsequently issued Sheehy a $525 fine for illegally discharging a firearm in the national park \u2013 which he paid, according to government records, as the Washington Post has previously reported.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Sheehy has accused the ranger, a registered Democrat named Kim Peach, of attempting to spread a \u201cdefamatory story\u201d. Sheehy himself has sought to parry Peach\u2019s version of events by saying he had never been hit by gunfire that day in 2015.<\/p>\n

As he repeated to Kelly, Sheehy says he fell while hiking, which made his gun go off \u2013 and the only reason he went to the hospital was because he was worried the bullet already in his arm from his service in Afghanistan may have become dislodged.<\/p>\n

Sheehy nonetheless also contends that he refused to report being shot in Afghanistan by friendly fire because he did not want his fellow military members to face an investigation over a relatively small injury, as he put it in his interview with Kelly.<\/p>\n

Kelly pushed Sheehy to address whether any medical records would confirm his version of events. But Sheehy ended up acknowledging that he did not have any such records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reed, B. (2024, November 4). Republican US senate candidate Tim Sheehy admits no records prove his claim he was shot at war. The Guardian<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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