This is probably just a misspeak, though Watkins has said it elsewhere as well, including during a recent episode of “ Say Yes to the Dress,” which showcased her veteran background. A SSgt. "They really were shocked when they found out, and they were also just hurt by the fact that I was suffering. "I wanted to be able to care for wounded warriors, and so I decided to apply to Harvard University," she says.
She had interviews on Oprah, Fox, guest starred on “Say Yes To The Dress,” and many others. "It's a hard road.
Her pedigree has opened the door to celebrity status, giving Watkins opportunities as a model, pageant participant, and budding TV star. There’s also no media coverage of her being awarded this or any other medal during her homecoming or at any other time. "I recently got engaged, on my birthday of all days," she says, smiling. We know she was able to stand on her own feet, walk capably, and deliver remarks to a crowd in April, 2007 after her return home. (Photo: CNN)Note: JQP was assisted in researching this story by the operators of the “Here at JQP, we look with a jaundiced eye upon false pretenses, and we focus mainly on the United States Air Force and its veterans. Risking pedantry, if indeed it were “medical hold,” Watkins would not have been retired until the hold was released, and it would never have run that long — even in the pathetic and broken bureaucracy that is the post-9/11 DoD-VA inept-i-plex. But such presumptions must be rebuttable to sustain their presence in American culture, and Watkins has made her service record relevant and rebuttable by first publicly selling herself as a veteran, second portraying herself as a veteran advocate, and third connecting herself and her service credentials to electoral politics.Alicia Watkins has portrayed herself in the media in a specific and profound way, painting herself as a wounded warrior and struggling vet battling back from the horrors of close combat and serial victimization through toughness and a determined spirit. Watkins had actually returned from deployment 30 months before the photo was taken.The thing is, none of this is necessarily inconsistent with the behavior of a traumatized veteran. At some point, it stretches so far that you can see right through it.There are questions about Donald Trump’s new veteran darling.
"It is amazing." "After the show, Watkins moved in with a family friend. Alicia Watkins is a retired Air Force staff sergeant who proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She risked her life for the freedom of others, survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and watched her colleagues die. And so we now raise a number of questions. Each time her story changed about how long she served, where she served, and how she was injured.
All rights reserved.Alicia Watkins Was A Homeless Veteran 5 Years Ago. My guess is that at this point, they’ll start to get answered … one way or another.
At one point, Watkins did have housing, but she gave up her room to a homeless mother and her three kids. Trump summarily brought her to the podium, asked her a few vague questions, and decisively settled on giving her a job in his organization.Ever thus to those who tickle the “gut instinct” of the Donald:It didn’t take long for the actual members of the media, who evidently felt like unwitting propagandists, to start gnawing at the real meaning of Watkins’ presence at the event.When CNN got Watkins on the phone, she promised an email explaining why “Troop Media” doesn’t appear in a web search … while hurriedly developing an excuse to break off the call.
Oprah also doesn’t ask about the photo below, dated November 13, 2009 — squarely during the time Watkins says she was homeless — featuring an exuberant and combat uniformed SSgt. This got us wondering, so we looked at her story more closely. Those questions have now been raised. Taking any one of them in isolation raises no insuperable doubts.
My college expenses are paid by the Watkins' says that her personal life has really turned around as well. As a preview of where this is all going, take a look at the following clip and listen closely to Watkins’ responses to media inquiries. Nothing earth-shattering, but just enough to invite more curiosity. Not to outright label Watkins a liar or Charlatan, but to highlight ambiguities she should work to resolve if she’s to continue advocating for the veteran cause and speaking on behalf of its constituents.We won’t cover every inconsistency here, and the intent is not to recount every chapter of Watkins’ unfolding media legacy.
This is probably just a misspeak, though Watkins has said it elsewhere as well, including during a recent episode of “ Say Yes to the Dress,” which showcased her veteran background. A SSgt. "They really were shocked when they found out, and they were also just hurt by the fact that I was suffering. "I wanted to be able to care for wounded warriors, and so I decided to apply to Harvard University," she says.
She had interviews on Oprah, Fox, guest starred on “Say Yes To The Dress,” and many others. "It's a hard road.
Her pedigree has opened the door to celebrity status, giving Watkins opportunities as a model, pageant participant, and budding TV star. There’s also no media coverage of her being awarded this or any other medal during her homecoming or at any other time. "I recently got engaged, on my birthday of all days," she says, smiling. We know she was able to stand on her own feet, walk capably, and deliver remarks to a crowd in April, 2007 after her return home. (Photo: CNN)Note: JQP was assisted in researching this story by the operators of the “Here at JQP, we look with a jaundiced eye upon false pretenses, and we focus mainly on the United States Air Force and its veterans. Risking pedantry, if indeed it were “medical hold,” Watkins would not have been retired until the hold was released, and it would never have run that long — even in the pathetic and broken bureaucracy that is the post-9/11 DoD-VA inept-i-plex. But such presumptions must be rebuttable to sustain their presence in American culture, and Watkins has made her service record relevant and rebuttable by first publicly selling herself as a veteran, second portraying herself as a veteran advocate, and third connecting herself and her service credentials to electoral politics.Alicia Watkins has portrayed herself in the media in a specific and profound way, painting herself as a wounded warrior and struggling vet battling back from the horrors of close combat and serial victimization through toughness and a determined spirit. Watkins had actually returned from deployment 30 months before the photo was taken.The thing is, none of this is necessarily inconsistent with the behavior of a traumatized veteran. At some point, it stretches so far that you can see right through it.There are questions about Donald Trump’s new veteran darling.
"It is amazing." "After the show, Watkins moved in with a family friend. Alicia Watkins is a retired Air Force staff sergeant who proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She risked her life for the freedom of others, survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and watched her colleagues die. And so we now raise a number of questions. Each time her story changed about how long she served, where she served, and how she was injured.
All rights reserved.Alicia Watkins Was A Homeless Veteran 5 Years Ago. My guess is that at this point, they’ll start to get answered … one way or another.
At one point, Watkins did have housing, but she gave up her room to a homeless mother and her three kids. Trump summarily brought her to the podium, asked her a few vague questions, and decisively settled on giving her a job in his organization.Ever thus to those who tickle the “gut instinct” of the Donald:It didn’t take long for the actual members of the media, who evidently felt like unwitting propagandists, to start gnawing at the real meaning of Watkins’ presence at the event.When CNN got Watkins on the phone, she promised an email explaining why “Troop Media” doesn’t appear in a web search … while hurriedly developing an excuse to break off the call.
Oprah also doesn’t ask about the photo below, dated November 13, 2009 — squarely during the time Watkins says she was homeless — featuring an exuberant and combat uniformed SSgt. This got us wondering, so we looked at her story more closely. Those questions have now been raised. Taking any one of them in isolation raises no insuperable doubts.
My college expenses are paid by the Watkins' says that her personal life has really turned around as well. As a preview of where this is all going, take a look at the following clip and listen closely to Watkins’ responses to media inquiries. Nothing earth-shattering, but just enough to invite more curiosity. Not to outright label Watkins a liar or Charlatan, but to highlight ambiguities she should work to resolve if she’s to continue advocating for the veteran cause and speaking on behalf of its constituents.We won’t cover every inconsistency here, and the intent is not to recount every chapter of Watkins’ unfolding media legacy.
This is probably just a misspeak, though Watkins has said it elsewhere as well, including during a recent episode of “ Say Yes to the Dress,” which showcased her veteran background. A SSgt. "They really were shocked when they found out, and they were also just hurt by the fact that I was suffering. "I wanted to be able to care for wounded warriors, and so I decided to apply to Harvard University," she says.
She had interviews on Oprah, Fox, guest starred on “Say Yes To The Dress,” and many others. "It's a hard road.
Her pedigree has opened the door to celebrity status, giving Watkins opportunities as a model, pageant participant, and budding TV star. There’s also no media coverage of her being awarded this or any other medal during her homecoming or at any other time. "I recently got engaged, on my birthday of all days," she says, smiling. We know she was able to stand on her own feet, walk capably, and deliver remarks to a crowd in April, 2007 after her return home. (Photo: CNN)Note: JQP was assisted in researching this story by the operators of the “Here at JQP, we look with a jaundiced eye upon false pretenses, and we focus mainly on the United States Air Force and its veterans. Risking pedantry, if indeed it were “medical hold,” Watkins would not have been retired until the hold was released, and it would never have run that long — even in the pathetic and broken bureaucracy that is the post-9/11 DoD-VA inept-i-plex. But such presumptions must be rebuttable to sustain their presence in American culture, and Watkins has made her service record relevant and rebuttable by first publicly selling herself as a veteran, second portraying herself as a veteran advocate, and third connecting herself and her service credentials to electoral politics.Alicia Watkins has portrayed herself in the media in a specific and profound way, painting herself as a wounded warrior and struggling vet battling back from the horrors of close combat and serial victimization through toughness and a determined spirit. Watkins had actually returned from deployment 30 months before the photo was taken.The thing is, none of this is necessarily inconsistent with the behavior of a traumatized veteran. At some point, it stretches so far that you can see right through it.There are questions about Donald Trump’s new veteran darling.
"It is amazing." "After the show, Watkins moved in with a family friend. Alicia Watkins is a retired Air Force staff sergeant who proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She risked her life for the freedom of others, survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and watched her colleagues die. And so we now raise a number of questions. Each time her story changed about how long she served, where she served, and how she was injured.
All rights reserved.Alicia Watkins Was A Homeless Veteran 5 Years Ago. My guess is that at this point, they’ll start to get answered … one way or another.
At one point, Watkins did have housing, but she gave up her room to a homeless mother and her three kids. Trump summarily brought her to the podium, asked her a few vague questions, and decisively settled on giving her a job in his organization.Ever thus to those who tickle the “gut instinct” of the Donald:It didn’t take long for the actual members of the media, who evidently felt like unwitting propagandists, to start gnawing at the real meaning of Watkins’ presence at the event.When CNN got Watkins on the phone, she promised an email explaining why “Troop Media” doesn’t appear in a web search … while hurriedly developing an excuse to break off the call.
Oprah also doesn’t ask about the photo below, dated November 13, 2009 — squarely during the time Watkins says she was homeless — featuring an exuberant and combat uniformed SSgt. This got us wondering, so we looked at her story more closely. Those questions have now been raised. Taking any one of them in isolation raises no insuperable doubts.
My college expenses are paid by the Watkins' says that her personal life has really turned around as well. As a preview of where this is all going, take a look at the following clip and listen closely to Watkins’ responses to media inquiries. Nothing earth-shattering, but just enough to invite more curiosity. Not to outright label Watkins a liar or Charlatan, but to highlight ambiguities she should work to resolve if she’s to continue advocating for the veteran cause and speaking on behalf of its constituents.We won’t cover every inconsistency here, and the intent is not to recount every chapter of Watkins’ unfolding media legacy.
For example, Watkins flails for a straight answer to when she left the military, implying at one point that she’s still on “medical hold.” But later she clearly states she is retired, meaning there is a date certain in her record — and presumably in her mind — when her military service ended.But beyond the specific oddities, there’s an uneasy vagary about the way Watkins describes her service. The former requires a specialized four-year degree and a certification. "I have traumatic brain injury, I have post-traumatic stress disorder, I have a spinal cord injury," she says. And my care was not seen throughout its fruition, and there were things that were happening, like I was not getting paid, and there was no way to stop it.
This is probably just a misspeak, though Watkins has said it elsewhere as well, including during a recent episode of “ Say Yes to the Dress,” which showcased her veteran background. A SSgt. "They really were shocked when they found out, and they were also just hurt by the fact that I was suffering. "I wanted to be able to care for wounded warriors, and so I decided to apply to Harvard University," she says.
She had interviews on Oprah, Fox, guest starred on “Say Yes To The Dress,” and many others. "It's a hard road.
Her pedigree has opened the door to celebrity status, giving Watkins opportunities as a model, pageant participant, and budding TV star. There’s also no media coverage of her being awarded this or any other medal during her homecoming or at any other time. "I recently got engaged, on my birthday of all days," she says, smiling. We know she was able to stand on her own feet, walk capably, and deliver remarks to a crowd in April, 2007 after her return home. (Photo: CNN)Note: JQP was assisted in researching this story by the operators of the “Here at JQP, we look with a jaundiced eye upon false pretenses, and we focus mainly on the United States Air Force and its veterans. Risking pedantry, if indeed it were “medical hold,” Watkins would not have been retired until the hold was released, and it would never have run that long — even in the pathetic and broken bureaucracy that is the post-9/11 DoD-VA inept-i-plex. But such presumptions must be rebuttable to sustain their presence in American culture, and Watkins has made her service record relevant and rebuttable by first publicly selling herself as a veteran, second portraying herself as a veteran advocate, and third connecting herself and her service credentials to electoral politics.Alicia Watkins has portrayed herself in the media in a specific and profound way, painting herself as a wounded warrior and struggling vet battling back from the horrors of close combat and serial victimization through toughness and a determined spirit. Watkins had actually returned from deployment 30 months before the photo was taken.The thing is, none of this is necessarily inconsistent with the behavior of a traumatized veteran. At some point, it stretches so far that you can see right through it.There are questions about Donald Trump’s new veteran darling.
"It is amazing." "After the show, Watkins moved in with a family friend. Alicia Watkins is a retired Air Force staff sergeant who proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She risked her life for the freedom of others, survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and watched her colleagues die. And so we now raise a number of questions. Each time her story changed about how long she served, where she served, and how she was injured.
All rights reserved.Alicia Watkins Was A Homeless Veteran 5 Years Ago. My guess is that at this point, they’ll start to get answered … one way or another.
At one point, Watkins did have housing, but she gave up her room to a homeless mother and her three kids. Trump summarily brought her to the podium, asked her a few vague questions, and decisively settled on giving her a job in his organization.Ever thus to those who tickle the “gut instinct” of the Donald:It didn’t take long for the actual members of the media, who evidently felt like unwitting propagandists, to start gnawing at the real meaning of Watkins’ presence at the event.When CNN got Watkins on the phone, she promised an email explaining why “Troop Media” doesn’t appear in a web search … while hurriedly developing an excuse to break off the call.
Oprah also doesn’t ask about the photo below, dated November 13, 2009 — squarely during the time Watkins says she was homeless — featuring an exuberant and combat uniformed SSgt. This got us wondering, so we looked at her story more closely. Those questions have now been raised. Taking any one of them in isolation raises no insuperable doubts.
My college expenses are paid by the Watkins' says that her personal life has really turned around as well. As a preview of where this is all going, take a look at the following clip and listen closely to Watkins’ responses to media inquiries. Nothing earth-shattering, but just enough to invite more curiosity. Not to outright label Watkins a liar or Charlatan, but to highlight ambiguities she should work to resolve if she’s to continue advocating for the veteran cause and speaking on behalf of its constituents.We won’t cover every inconsistency here, and the intent is not to recount every chapter of Watkins’ unfolding media legacy.
