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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has drawn the ire of the U.S. military this year by consistently blocking routine military appointments requiring Senate approval in a relentless protest against Defense Department policies on abortion. He’s also been criticized for seemingly being confused about whether white nationalists in the armed forces are racist.
Now it seems Tuberville may have been in a muddle about his own father’s service during World War II. On Tuesday, a Washington Post analysis of claims the senator made about his dad, Charles R. Tuberville Jr., found that some of his assertions don’t quite add up.
Broadly speaking, Tuberville has repeatedly characterized his father as someone who lied about his age to join the U.S. Army and then went on to become a tank commander on D-Day, earning an incredible five Bronze Stars throughout the course of his service during the war.