From the article I infer that he had 2 non-combat deployments in his career… He claimed he had been on 7, with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Badge and GWOT Expeditionary Medal (which you could only get for a combat deployment). In other words, he never was in the right unit, at the right time, to pull a combat deployment. He did earn 2 MSMs and 5 Navy Commendation medals, but nothing to show that he was a Marine who served in combat. Sounds like a bad case of envy that his stack didn’t match up to a Lance Corporal’s with an actual combat tour.

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