Documents provide glimpse into Buttigieg's military service

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Military documents obtained by The Hill provide a glimpse into Pete Buttigieg’s time as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, a key portion of his biography that sets him apart from the pack of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders.

The Hill reviewed Buttigieg’s certificate of release from active duty and a counseling report. The documents are highly redacted but reveal new details about Buttigieg’s work to disrupt the flow of money among terrorist organizations as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the war on terrorism launched by former President George W. Bush after 9/11.

The documents were first obtained by ABC 57’s Clifton French, an investigative reporter and Iraq War veteran based in South Bend, Ind., where Buttigieg is mayor.

According to the documents, Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in “an imminent danger pay area” from late March to mid-September 2014, while the then-32-year old was still serving his first term as mayor.

The ATFC “identifies and disrupts Taliban, Al-Qaida and other insurgent financial support networks in Afghanistan.”

Buttigieg represented ATFC at “high level briefings,” the documents say, and “coordinated intelligence sharing and targeting deconfliction” methods with multiple organizations.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442082-documents-provide-glimpse-into-buttigiegs-military-service

"But I fought VD during Viet Nam!" - Donny Dotard

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1. actually Donny said worse than that

he compared the fact he didn't get an STD in the 1980's to VietNam, in other words he was so unfaithful to his wife during that time he was afraid he could catch a disease.

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2. More from the article ...

Buttigieg has talked about the 119 times he says he crossed “outside the wire,” leaving the relative safety of the base as a vehicle commander on convoy security detail in dangerous parts of Kabul. “We learned what it is to trust one another with our lives,” Buttigieg said in his presidential launch speech.

Buttigieg has not claimed to have been involved in direct combat, but he has written at length about the dangers he faced in the unpredictable environs in downtown Kabul, where stops at checkpoints or encounters on the street could turn deadly.

“In a ritual to be repeated dozens of times, I would heave my armored torso into the driver’s seat of a Land Cruiser, chamber a round in my M4, lock the doors and wave a gloved goodbye to the Macedonian gate guard,” Buttigieg wrote. “My vehicle would cross outside the wire and into the boisterous Afghan city, entering a world infinitely more interesting and ordinary and dangerous than our zone behind the blast walls at ISAF headquarters.”

Buttigieg also wrote about the threat of roadside explosive devices and how he was constantly on the lookout for signs of danger.

Buttigieg returned home to his job as mayor in September 2014. He came out as gay in 2015 as he faced reelection, saying that his time in Afghanistan made him realize it was time to own his identity. That year, Buttigieg won a second term as mayor with more than 80 percent of the vote.