Tuberville Lied About Father’s Service During WWII

The Washington Post reports:

For nearly a decade, Tuberville has described the World War II exploits of his father, Charles R. Tuberville Jr., in a relatively consistent way — that he was a tank commander, that he earned five Bronze Stars, that he participated in the D-Day landing and that he lied about his age to join the army. News organizations have tended to accept Tuberville’s version and either reprint or broadcast it.

Yet an examination of army histories, newspaper reports and other materials calls into question many of the claims put forth by Tuberville, who sits on both the Senate Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs committees and is now in a high-profile battle with the Biden administration over a Defense Department policy offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members who need to go out of state for abortions.

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His father joined the army at 18, never got any Bronze Stars, and was never a tank commander. He might have been there on D-Day. Gift link.

Tuberville has been lying about his father’s service in WWII for years.

This is very ugly stuff. https://t.co/MH4gcLlKsO

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) July 26, 2023