Post by Logan on Mar 13, 2016 0:38:27 GMT -6
Sen. Sam McCann again faces questions about military service
When he won his legislative seat in 2010, state Sen. Sam McCann, R-Plainview, had to overcome allegations that he made up or exaggerated a military background.
That issue has re-emerged this year, as McCann is seeking another term and is challenged in the March 15 50th Senate District Republican primary by Bryce Benton, a state trooper from Springfield.
McCann said in 2010 that he signed up to be a U.S. Marine, but got injured in a construction accident before going to boot camp. He said at the time that he had been discharged from the military, but didn’t have that discharge paper and had asked the military for another copy.
Aaron DeGroot, Benton’s spokesman, said he sent an information request to the National Personnel Records Center, asking about a “William Samuel McCann.”
“We have been unsuccessful in identifying a military service record for the above-named individual,” said the Jan. 19 response from an archives technician. “This does not mean the subject did not have military service, only that we are unable to identify a record based on the limited information you have provided.”
Read more: www.sj-r.com/article/20160308/NEWS/160309589
When he won his legislative seat in 2010, state Sen. Sam McCann, R-Plainview, had to overcome allegations that he made up or exaggerated a military background.
That issue has re-emerged this year, as McCann is seeking another term and is challenged in the March 15 50th Senate District Republican primary by Bryce Benton, a state trooper from Springfield.
McCann said in 2010 that he signed up to be a U.S. Marine, but got injured in a construction accident before going to boot camp. He said at the time that he had been discharged from the military, but didn’t have that discharge paper and had asked the military for another copy.
Aaron DeGroot, Benton’s spokesman, said he sent an information request to the National Personnel Records Center, asking about a “William Samuel McCann.”
“We have been unsuccessful in identifying a military service record for the above-named individual,” said the Jan. 19 response from an archives technician. “This does not mean the subject did not have military service, only that we are unable to identify a record based on the limited information you have provided.”
Read more: www.sj-r.com/article/20160308/NEWS/160309589