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ELKHART, Ind. — REAL News Michiana has confirmed conservative radio host for 95.3 MNC, Casey Hendrickson, lied about serving in Iraq on at least one occasion. In one episode of his daily show from more than a year ago, Hendrickson was talking about the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. During that conversation, Hendrickson tried to use his military experience to make it seem as if he was a subject matter expert by claiming he was an Iraq War veteran. It turns out, Hendrickson was NEVER deployed to a combat zone.
“I’ve been talking about this conflict since it happened. I know that most of you are aware of my history with Iraq and to a broader extent, my unit history if you will, in Afghanistan. I’ve talked about that in the past, I don’t need to go into details about it.” Hendrickson said on the air. “So, I think some of you who have listened for an extended period of time, understand I have a fairly decent grasp of what’s going on… mostly because of my time in service.”
RNM has put in a Freedom of Information Act Request for Hendrickson’s military records, however, those requests can take months and even years to be fulfilled. While we have confirmed Hendrickson did at least enlist in the Army and go to basic training, we have found no records that he even made it out of AIT for Infantry training (which is the job he has claimed to have in service). Further, Hendrickson has told RNM’s founder Clifton French in the past that he never served in combat, but did not get into exact details about his time in service.
On top of his daily radio show, Hendrickson is also a host of a “Veterans” podcast with several other vets called “The Common Veterans”. After discovering the clip of Hendrickson committing Stolen Valor, RNM sent an email to “The Common Veterans”. That email was sent using the podcast website’s auto generated contact field, meaning RNM could not attach a copy of the video and we were only briefly able to describe Hendrickson’s lies. One host addressed the email in their latest podcast, defending Hendrickson for his acts of Stolen Valor. That host went even further, by then threatening physical violence against RNM’s founder, Clifton French, who is an actual veteran of the Iraq War.
“There is no Stolen Valor on this show. We do not accept Stolen Valor. We do not accept our members being called out for Stolen Valor. Especially when said member (Casey Hendrickson) has specifically said that he has no combat experience.” The host said in their November 28th podcast, ignoring the fact that Hendrickson has claimed to serve in Iraq in the past as evidenced in the video above. “For those that emailed me about it, they can go jump off a cliff… And the one I’m calling out, I’d just rather, you know, Jake Paul your ass.” (The audio of that clip can be listened to below).
Hendrickson has spent hours attacking others for committing the same Stolen Valor that he has. Earlier this year, he used several episodes of his show to rightfully attack Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz for exaggerating and lying about his military background. He also lambasted Walz for not deploying to Iraq with his Army National Guard unit. Local Youtube creator Ben Dallas made a video showing Hendrickson’s hypocrisy. It can be viewed below.
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