https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/to...n-army-ranger/


Same thing with Corky Messner, another Republican.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ger-qualified/


You and I might not have known the difference between a Ranger and
Ranger-qualified, but they surely did.

Don't know about Messner, but Cotton had honorable service in a combat
zone, so why did he feel the need to lie.