The stolen valor claim is dead on arrival. Tim served 24 years and retired 2 months before deployment. He was discharged honorably in a very senior rank, and owes no one any explanation as to why he retired and didn't wait longer to get deployed. Starting to serve in congress was the clear reason.
If JV digs in on this they can start comparing their commitment and depth of involvement and how JV was part of the marine Corps public affairs office, serving as a "combat correspondent" for 6 months in Iraq, and talked about how lucky he was to avoid combat 😆. 24 years vs 4 years and we get to learn all about what a combat correspondent does. Sorry but MOS 4341 is not the "real" Marines if you ask any USMC combat vet. Unless he actually went on patrols to gather info for the newspapers, dude was sitting comfortably in his air conditioned container surfing the web most of the day.
