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Aug 25, 2023 · His military personnel records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request and posted online by journalist James LaPorta, show that he served on active duty from September 2005 to...
May 21, 2024 · Though DeSantis did have a military career as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he was not a Navy SEAL during his time of service. However, he did serve as close legal counsel to a Navy SEAL commander while deployed to Iraq in 2007 and 2008.
Oct 15, 2018 · Through a federal public records request, the Florida Phoenix obtained 42 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Navy related to DeSantis’s active-duty service from spring of 2004 to early 2010. (DeSantis continued to serve in the Navy Reserve after 2010.)
Mar 7, 2023 · Military records obtained by McClatchy show he spent at least six months in Cuba — between March 2006 and January 2007 — where his primary duty was as trial counsel and he served as a...
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Sep 28, 2018 · DeSantis has made his military service record both in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay a pillar of his campaign, with mailers featuring photos of him in uniform and references to his service as a...
Jul 20, 2023 · There have been fleeting moments: a “Top Gun”-themed video from his 2022 re-election bid, a guest bartending gig at a Nevada VFW hall and an occasional line about how he could have made more money...
Sep 5, 2023 · Our rating: False. There is no record of DeSantis claiming to be a Navy SEAL. During the Aug. 23 Republican presidential debate, he said he “was assigned with” and “deployed to Iraq ...
Military service DeSantis as a US Navy ensign of JAG c. 2005. In 2004, during his second year at Harvard Law, DeSantis was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG). He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.
Sep 21, 2018 · DeSantis has made his military service record both in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay a pillar of his campaign, with mailers featuring photos of him in uniform and references to his service as a...
Mar 7, 2023 · Interviews with over a dozen former Navy officers and personnel, defense attorneys and detainees shed light on the access Ron DeSantis had to cases at the notorious Guantánamo Bay detention...