An exclusive investigation by Breitbart’s Matt Boyle has uncovered extensive evidence that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Congressman Gary Peters exaggerated and misrepresented his military service record on the campaign trail. Military community leaders, including one of his former commanding officers, said Peters’ military service record jacket, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the Department of the Navy and provided exclusively to Breitbart News, shows a man who had a broken service record that was substandard, one of his indirect commanding officers, retired Navy Commander Jim Semerad, said in an interview with Breitbart News. “Gary was pretty much a warm body in virtually all of the units I saw him assigned to,” Semerad said when reached by phone early Thursday. “He was never selected for anything.” And Semerad is not the only one speaking out. Boyle reports former Rep. Allen West (R-FL), who served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, is raising concerns about Peters’ record as are Retired Navy Captain Joseph John, the head of the group Combat Veterans For Congress, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) military expert. “Gary Peters has misled Michigan voters on his military service record,” John said in an emailed statement to Matt Boyle. “While we certainly appreciate everyone who enlists and serves on behalf of our country, on the campaign trail Congressman Peters, to put it mildly, has repeatedly made less than accurate statements about his time in the Naval Reserve and said things that arent necessarily true about his qualifications in the Naval Reserves.”
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:26:42 +0000
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