Walz did make a comment speaking to a group, he’s done it a couple of times, where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation," said CNN correspondent Tom Foreman in a fact check. "As you know, with your contact with the military, I know from coming from a military family, there is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you. There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was."

He was in Italy. I wore the Vietnam service medal,pin, whatever that is on your Dress Blues. The most hazardous deployment I saw was central Louisiana.