Pete called himself a middle class veteran?
foh, asshole.
At least bernie never pretends to be middle class when he's talking about helping them.
As a veteran myself, his military record is incredibly weird.
1) he’s a direct commission, meaning he never went to OCS, ROTC, a military academy, or even the fucking knife and for school that doctors and lawyers go to. It’s intended for people with special skills that the military needs ASAP, but in practice is usually reserved for extremely privileged people with connections, and is often kind of a scam. Other well-known direct commissions are Hunter Biden when he was like 35 and Reince Priebus after he was White House chief of staff.
2) claims to be an intel officer, but there’s no evidence he actually went to intel school.
Ultimately, the whole thing stinks of him just being able to finagle his political connections to get into the military to get a checkbox on his resume, then went to Iraq for 5 months and like drove people around a bit, without doing any real military work.