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Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview on 'This Week' :

"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."

Mostly True

By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 in a speech at the Citadel:

For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015

John Bel Edwards
stated on November 11, 2015 in a campaign ad:

Says David Vitter "answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom."

Mostly True

By Charles Maldonado • November 19, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 in the Democratic debate in Iowa:

Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP debate.:

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

False

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 in a debate:

Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 in posts on the Internet:

Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015

Jim Gilmore
stated on September 16, 2015 in a tweet.:

On the main GOP presidential debate: "Not one candidate on the debate stage has military experience … "

True

By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN GOP presidential debate:

Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick."

False

By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world."

True

By Will Cabaniss • August 30, 2015

Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 in his column in the New York Times:

"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."

True

By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on August 18, 2015 in a speech at the Iowa State Fair:

"We have an Army that just cut 40,000 spots."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on August 13, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Says 57 percent of federal spending goes to the military and just 1 percent goes to food and agriculture, including food stamps.

False

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2015

Allen West
stated on August 1, 2015 in a blog on his website:

The Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property."

False

By Lauren Carroll • August 4, 2015

Restoration PAC
stated on July 22, 2015 in a TV ad:

President Barack Obama met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.

Pants on Fire!

By Tom Kertscher • July 24, 2015

Jon Stewart
stated on July 21, 2015 in an interview on "The Daily Show":

The United States is "fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS along with Iran. But in Yemen we're fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis."

Half-True

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 23, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on July 15, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

President Barack Obama "said at the beginning of the negotiations that the basic approach was to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for dismantling the sanctions."

False

By Christian Belanger • July 22, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 20, 2015 in a segment on his radio show:

"Al Franken said almost exactly what Trump said" about John McCain’s military record.

Half-True

By Will Cabaniss • July 22, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on July 17, 2015 in a town hall in Carson City, Nevada:

"A law was passed, apparently in the Clinton administration, about whether, in recruiting offices … Marines or other military should be able to have guns. Apparently it is prohibited."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • July 21, 2015

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