Families Of Injured Troops Take Issue With False Claim By Harris

The families of wounded American veterans have shredded Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris for her assertion that there are no United States troops in combat zones.

There are currently as many as 50,000 active service members who are stationed around the globe in combat zones in Africa and the Middle East that are getting either “hostile fire”

or “imminent danger pay,” retired Army colonel and military analyst Jonathan Sweet said to The New York Post.

“As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century,” the vice president said in her debate against former President Donald Trump.

But the families of American troops have complained that she lied.

Brad Illerbrunner, whose son, Chief Warrant Officer Garrett Illerbrunner, who is a member of the US Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division, suffered a critical injury in Iraq on Christmas Day.

“A drone launched by the terror organization Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups struck the Erbil Air Base in Iraq where Garrett was stationed,” The Post said.

The soldier was left disabled after he, and two other troops, were hit by shrapnel.

His dad said that the vice president “really [hit] below the belt. . . . She doesn’t even recognize that our own troops are getting hurt.”

“We’re still in war zones,” he said as he accused her of “trying to snow the public.”

A month after that attack three Army Reserve soldiers had their lives ended in a drone strike at US base in Jordan that injured 34 more troops that was launched by Iran-backed militants.

Holly Davis, whose husband is deployed in Syria as a National Guardsman involved in Operation Inherent Resolve, said her husband and other troops are still in imminent danger.