Veterans

He got into the Naval Academy on his tennis-playing skills.

He graduated and went to AVIATION training--which costs a fortune. After a few years of that, he decided he didn't like it and went to SEALS. He defended St. Kitts against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He missed the one big engagement of his time in uniform (Gulf 1) and I have a feeling he was either offered early out in the slash-and-burn drawdown or he failed of selection to 0-4. Nonetheless, he tried to paint himself as a big war hero during his (awful) senate campaign. He was anything but--anyone who still runs around wearing their Navy issue aviation jacket with aviation and SEAL insignia (designed to be worn on the uniform, not as a "candidate's brooch&quot pinned to it in slipshod fashion after having left the service over a decade and a half previously, with no combat deployments, is a bullshitter to me.

Of course, if "the standard" for bullshitting is "I turned my ankle in Academy prep" then I guess Tennis Boy, the Defender of the Caribbean IS a "war hero"....!