Corbin ReiffVerified account

I rarely discuss politics on this platform, but yesterday, the Republican nominee for President said something that compels me to speak out.

I spent five years, from 2006-2011 as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army.

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.