{"id":30003,"date":"2012-05-17T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30003"},"modified":"2012-05-17T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:06:11","slug":"ken-aden-running-for-congress-in-ar-03-a-green-beret-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30003","title":{"rendered":"Ken Aden running for Congress in AR-03, a “Green Beret” not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a guy running for Congress in Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional District, who happens to be a Democrat named Ken Aden<\/a>. He had a perfectly honorable career in the military with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st infantry Division, but that wasn’t good enough for him. Apparently, he had been telling the media before his run that he was a “Green Beret” (remember I told you to be suspicious of people who say that?). For example, there’s an article in the Russellville, AR, Courier News Online<\/a> in which he clearly tells the reporter that “I am a former green beret…” In case the article disappears, like many of the articles I’ve been searching for, here is the relevant screenshot;
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He’s running against his former commander in the Congressional race, Steve Womack, who says that he doesn’t remember Aden in his unit when they served in the Sinai, but as you can see from his FOIA, he has the Multi-National Force and Observers Medal traditionally given to folks who served in the Sinai;
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Here’s the addendum for the FOIA where the MNFO Medal appears;<\/p>\n

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Kos used to have an article about Aden and his Green Beret-ness, but if you click on this link<\/a>, you’ll see they pulled it. But the internet remembers;<\/p>\n

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I guess someone got word that folks were checking on him and started cleaning up behind him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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