2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg discusses his military service with jeffzeleny: “It's not like I killed Bin Laden,” but it was dangerous. 'It helps me demonstrate the difference between how I'm oriented and how the current President is.'
His six years as an intelligence officer in the Naval Reserves, along with a six-month deployment to Afghanistan, makes a gold-plated resume not only shine brighter, but with an air of validation.The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is part of a new generation of leaders who came of age after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and volunteered for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He and two other presidential candidates, Democratic Reps.
"One of my early memories was that he had an earbud in and he was learning a language, I think it was Dari," McRae said in an interview, recalling that day five years ago."Certainly I don't remember other folks that were picking up a language at that point in time." A dozen people who served alongside Buttigieg in the Naval Reserves and in Afghanistan, who spoke to CNN, described him as mature and, yes, ambitious.
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