Latest Fact-Checks In Military

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 4, 2016 a town hall in Manchester, N.H.
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on January 20, 2016 a letter
"It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces."  
True
By Mark Reynolds • January 31, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Says Marco Rubio "knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion."
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015
Jim Gilmore
Jim Gilmore
stated on September 16, 2015 a tweet.
On the main GOP presidential debate: "Not one candidate on the debate stage has military experience … "
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By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 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
Nicholas Kristof
stated on August 27, 2015 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
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015
Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh
stated on April 2, 2015 an interview in Concord, N.H.
"The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget are health care expenses."
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By Clay Wirestone • April 21, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 14, 2014 a TV interview
The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 1, 2014 a 'Wall Street Journal' CEO Council event
"Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
True
By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2014
Ryan Lizza
Ryan Lizza
stated on September 22, 2014 a tweet
"Countries bombed: Obama 7, Bush 4"
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 25, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 14, 2014 an opinion column
"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts."
True
By Lauren Carroll • August 21, 2014
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on June 6, 2014 a speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention
"At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugal’s."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices."
"The U.S. military footprint in Africa is nearly nonexistent."
True
By Steve Contorno • June 12, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
By 2009, "dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the battlefield" by drones.
True
By Lauren Carroll • June 11, 2014
Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer
stated on June 4, 2014 remarks on Fox News
The Israelis "gave up 1,000 terrorists in return for one sergeant."
True
By Shannon Beckham • June 8, 2014
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 6, 2014 an opinion article
Before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, "the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in Libya."  
True
May 19, 2014
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on April 6, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"When people enter the service, there’s not a mental health evaluation."
True
By Steve Contorno • April 6, 2014
David Ignatius
David Ignatius
stated on March 2, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"Crimea became part of Ukraine only in 1954. Crimea was historically part of Russia, and (Nikita) Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in a gesture that mystified some people."
True
By Julie Kliegman • March 2, 2014
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