Corbin ReiffVerified account

When I deployed to Iraq in 2009 I was made Non Commissioned Officer in Charge of Foreign Claims for the entirety of Western Baghdad.

That’s an area that covers roughly 5 million people. I was 21 years old and will admit, very much in over my head.

My job for a whole year was to assess damage to Iraqi citizen’s property, and person and compensate them monetarily.

So if a helicopter dropped a flare and burned a kid, or an MRAP ran into a generator or someone's goat while on patrol...

Or we killed someone in the line of fire, it was my job to make it right.

Affected citizens would make the drive from as far as Lebanon on a weekly basis to see if their claims had been adjudicated.

The job was tough, almost impossible, but it was the just thing to do and helped build a bridge of trust between us and the citizenry.

I basically spent a year of my life in an aluminum trailer, away from my friends and family enduring mortar attacks nearly every night.

There was always more to do, and the stack of files and faces never dwindled. I got half a day off every two weeks.

I had to look widows and orphans in the eye as tears ran down their cheeks telling me through an interpreter their heartbreaking stories.

Every mission out into the city carried with it tremendous risk, but we had a job to do, and forcibly put that out of our minds.

In the course of my job, I was entrusted with a lot of taxpayer money, all in American cash.

As a result, we instantly became a high value target for insurgents who wanted to relieve us of said cash at one of our weekly gatherings.

Yesterday, @realDonaldTrump, a man who never served in any capacity said this about me and my brethren that served in Iraq.

“How about bringing baskets of money — millions and millions of dollars — and handing it out?”

I am living well right now - some student loan debt aside - but not because I pocketed the hard-earned taxpayer money that I was entrusted.

In my time overseas, the procedures that were put in place to prevent that from happening were frustratingly thorough.

The idea that Trump would call out the integrity of those who answered the call of service and deployed to a war zone is repellant.

For this reason, and many more, he’s proven that he’s someone with neither the temperament, nor the character, to be Commander in Chief.

Don’t believe him when he says he’s for Veterans. It's lip service entirely.