Really interesting stuff about Chuck Hagel we all should know

Groups who support Hagel’s nomination:

Veterans of Foreign Wars
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
AMVETS
VoteVets.org
Military Officers Association of America
Non Commissioned Officers Association of the USA
Vietnam Veterans of America
The American Legion
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

Holding the rank of Sergeant (E-5), he served as an infantry squad leader in the 9th Infantry Division. Hagel served in the same infantry squad as his younger brother Tom, and they are believed to be the only American siblings to do so during the Vietnam War. They also ended up saving each other's lives on separate occasions. While serving during the war, he received the the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, two Purple Hearts, Army Commendation Medal, and the Combat Infantryman Badge.

Shards from a Viet Cong mine are still embedded in Chuck Hagel’s chest, 44 years after his infantry squad walked into a booby trap in the Vietnam jungle. Scar tissue marks the left side of his face from another mine explosion, barely a month after his first brush with death.

Under President Ronald Reagan, Chuck Hagel was named deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration. In 1982, however, he resigned his post over a disagreement with VA Administrator Robert P. Nimmo, who was intent on cutting funding for VA programs. Nimmo had referred to veterans groups as "greedy", and to Agent Orange as not much worse than a "little teenage acne."

And this is the guy Ted Cruz was calling a traitor!!