On Friday, the Huffington Post ran an article from Andrew Reinbach titled “the honor of Senator Joni Ernst.” In it, Reinbach does his best to tear down Ernst’s military record by claiming she shouldn’t be considered a combat veteran.

Reinbach admits that under the military’s definition, Ernst is a combat veteran, “because she served in a combat zone.” But Reinbach goes to great lengths to make sure readers know he doesn’t consider her a combat veteran because she “was never in a firefight, or for that matter attacked at all; [her unit] delivered supplies, and later, guarded the front gate and ran perimeter patrol at their home base outside Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan.”