Cotton, who first ran for Congress in 2012, claimed during that campaign that he had served as “a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan” and “volunteered to be an Army Ranger.” ...

Newsweek is facing intense backlash after the publication retroactively edited a 2015 report about Army Ranger School in order to support Salon's reporting on Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

But Mr Cotton, who served in the Army for eight years and was discharged as a captain with two commendation medals, a Bronze star and a Ranger tab, was never actually a part of the elite 75th ...

On Jan. 23, 2021, Salon published an expose accusing Sen. Tom Cotton of overstating his military experience during past political campaigns in claiming that he was "a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq and ...