Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore's former Army supervisor in Afghanistan says his claims of leading paratroopers in combat are "not truthful."
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In an investigative
deep dive into Moore's military service, The Baltimore Sun spoke with a retired Army Lt. Col. James A. "Jamie" Gottschling, who served with Moore in Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006. What Gottschling described was Moore's patriotic service and dutiful fulfillment of his role, but exaggerations — and in some cases falsehoods — about incidents that occurred overseas.
Moore's team said that "partisan politics got in the way" and led to Gottschling's latest assessment, where he told Fox News Digital: "I wouldn't call him a soldier."
When you think of a veteran of combat, you think somebody that's in a foxhole, getting shot at, IED blowing up the convoy, or even more dramatically, when you think about World War II movies, Easy Company, or any of those things where it's like, those guys are getting shot," Gottschling said. "That just wasn't the environment that he was in."
"He starts talking about, you know, in his TED Talk and really struggling with reintegration into the civilian world after the deployment, I'm like, 'what is he talking about?' You know, he spent six months over there, basically in, you know, a forward base that pretty much is as safe as anywhere. You'd probably be at more risk going to an ER in any of the cities in the United States than you would be in Afghanistan, in Salerno."
In his book, "The Work," Moore
describes being shot at.
"As a soldier, you never forget the first time you were shot at," he wrote in the book. "A sudden, stunning commotion engulfs you—the sound of shells buzzing past your ears, a flurry of divots leaping out of the earth around your feet—but then your training kicks in," the book says.
"Moments before those first shots came at me, I was convinced I was prepared for the experience," the book continues.
Never knew "shells" came out of guns, buzzing past ears. Sad individual. 
