Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing questions about a harrowing war story he tells on the campaign trail after a report in the Washington Post pointed out multiple inaccuracies in his account. The story, which he most recently told during a town hall event in Hanover, New Hampshire last week,
Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing questions about a harrowing war story he tells on the campaign trail after a report in the Washington Post pointed out multiple inaccuracies in his account.
"One of his buddies got shot, fell down a ravine about 60 feet. A four-star general asked me whether I’d go up in the FOB," Biden told a hushed crowd during a town hall last week on the campus of Dartmouth College, using the military shorthand for forward operating base."And everybody got concerned a vice president going up in the middle of this, but we can lose a vice president, we can't lose many more of these kids, not a joke. This guy climbed down a ravine.
According to the report, Biden visited Kunar province as a U.S. senator in 2008, not as vice president, and the soldier involved was not an older Navy captain, but a 20-year-old Army specialist named Kyle White. White was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014, and Biden was present at a White House ceremony when then-President Obama pinned it on his chest.
Biden did pin a medal on Workman during a January 2011 ceremony at Forward Operating Base Airborne in Wardak Province.
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