Montgomery, AL – Republican candidate for governor Robert Bentley says he did not distort his military record in a campaign ad where he talked about seeing military personnel injured in Vietnam.
Bentley said Wednesday he was interim commander at the hospital at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina and often saw patients at nearby Fort Bragg, where some injured soldiers from Vietnam were treated.
Bentley made his comments shortly before a group of Vietnam veterans were scheduled to have a news conference in Montgomery to criticize Bentley's portrayal of his record in the ad.
Bentley blamed the campaign of his runoff opponent, Bradley Byrne, for being behind the criticism. Byrne spokeswoman Marty Sullivan said those charges are false.
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