There really is no “there” there. Apparently, Peters said he was an “expert” pistol and rifle marksman, but he was only qualified as a “sharpshooter” – one level below the “expert” designation. Peters also said that he was a SEABEE, but he was actually a supply officer in a SEABEE unit. His only deployment in ten years of service was to Qatar. There are probably scads of reservists who didn’t get that far.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of our missions was to build bridges,\u201d Peters added at that American Legion post in Trenton, pumping his claimed experience in the military as useful for him in Congress. \u201cI like to say: We learned how to build bridges while getting shot at. It\u2019s kind of a metaphor for Washington: people are constantly taking shots but we’ve got to be able to build bridges, we got to bring people together…it’s about being a practical problem solver.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He never built or bridge or got shot at while he wasn’t building a bridge, but to me, that’s no more than boosting your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Not everyone in the military gets shot at, or even deploys, so like I said, this isn’t really stolen valor or anything similar. <\/p>\n
Mr. Boyles compares this case to John Kerry or Richard Blumenthal, but they’re not even close. Blumenthal said that he went to Vietnam, when he didn’t, Kerry has memories “seared” into his tiny brain that never happened. Peters gave himself a bump up in the weapons qual badges. This one makes me shrug. It trivializes the whole Stolen Valor issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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