Their service was never questioned unlike some Democrat politicians past and present.
Via Defense One
A lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard and the first female combat veteran in the Senate. A former Army Ranger and captain educated in the Ivy League. A lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves who worked on former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s national security staff. These are the three newly elected senators who will serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Republicans announced Monday.
Senators-elect Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, all post-9/11 veterans who served in either Iraq, Afghanistan or both wars, will serve on the Senate’s defense committee, according to incoming Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The Republican conference and full Senate will ratify the picks.
The three veterans are likely to serve under Vietnam veterans Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., as ranking member. Committee chairmanships are expected to be announced in January, after the committees vote on their new leaders.
Ernst is the first servicewoman to both fight in combat and also be elected to the Senate. She served in Iraq in 2003, commanding a company that ran convoys through Kuwait into southern Iraq. She will also serve on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee.[…]
Cotton comes to the Senate from the House, where he served on the Foreign Affairs committee. He is also a decorated infantry officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He graduated from Harvard University and Law School and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals before joining the military. Cotton will also serve on the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Dan Sullivan, Alaska’s former attorney general, has spent some time in Washington, working as an Assistant Secretary of State and a member of Rice’s National Security Council team. Sullivan, who deployed to Afghanistan three times, will also serve on the Veterans’ Affairs committee.
HT Theo Spark