He wrote that he decided to leave the SEALs on his own accord. On the campaign trail, he’s left a different impression.
running to unseat Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester, has repeatedly told voters he was “discharged” from the military for medical reasons, owing to wounds sustained in service.
“I had been shot and wounded by shrapnel and IEDs,” Sheehy wrote, also describing a firefight in Afghanistan in which he was shot in the arm and other violent incidents including a mistaken U.S. Hellfire missile strike on his SEALs team. Sheehy added that he and his wife, Carmen, a U.S. Marine, were disillusioned with the American campaign in Afghanistan and had “kind of grown frustrated with the military.”
“If it’s possible for a life-threatening injury to be considered a blessing,” he wrote—clearly referring to his submarine accident and heart problem and not combat wounds—“then maybe that’s what this was: a forcing of our hand, an opportunity to reexamine our lives.” Sheehy has mentioned his submarine accident while campaigning but the account does not quite square with what he writes in his book.
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