What Was Beau Biden S Job In Iraq

The general presented beau biden with the legion of merit for his service in the delaware national guard.

What was beau biden s job in iraq. He spent a year there. Biden served in iraq for a year after being. The former vice president like trump never served in the military. My son was in iraq.

Biden told this whopper last week when he was confronted by an air force veteran who accused him of having blood on his hands for having voted for the iraq war as a senator. Beau served in iraq. Today s veteranoftheday is army veteran beau biden. The award honors exceptional merit in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.

Getty delaware attorney general capt. Beau biden who joined the national guard in 2003 and served in the 261st signal brigade deployed to iraq in october 2008 the day after his dad squared off against sarah palin in the vice. Toward the end of debate former vice president joe biden brought up his late son beau biden who served as an officer in the iraq war and tragically died from a brain tumor in 2015. We are wondering the veteran asked why we should vote for someone who voted for and enabled a war that killed thousands of our brothers and sisters intimating that close friends of his were casualties.

Joseph beau biden iii c stands with other members of the delaware army national guard 261st signal brigade. Odierno beau biden s commanding general in iraq also lauded his comrade s military service overseas. Biden had announced during his deployment that he would continue to actively serve as delaware s attorney general by working in conjunction with his office s senior staff in delaware although a member of his unit related biden saying he had turned over most of his attorney general work to his deputy so as to focus on his duties in iraq. Beau was born in wilmington delaware in 1969.

He got the bronze star. On november 24 2008 governor ruth ann minner named ted kaufman to the seat but kaufman indicated he would not be a candidate in the 2010 special election. But biden s son beau biden who died of brain cancer in 2015 deployed to iraq as an army lawyer in 2008 and the candidate ends. Is there something i am missing here.

Beau was once believed to have been a frontrunner for the seat but while deployed in iraq stated that he would not seek or accept an appointment to the senate.