Wes Moore Shirked His Military Obligations for Years, Investigation Finds, Barely Showing Up Despite Army Paying Tuition: Democrat’s Service Record Again Under Fire
Moore didn’t report to basic officer training for nearly seven years, local Maryland news outlets report
Andrew Kerr
May 4, 2026
Maryland governor Wes Moore’s (D.) military service record has once again come under scrutiny, with a coalition of local news outlets reporting a slew of gaps and discrepancies in his file that suggest the presidential hopeful treated his 17 years in the military as little more than a ticket-punch for his political career.
The scrutiny—from a coalition of local news outlets called Spotlight on Maryland—once again stems from claims Moore made in the application he submitted to serve as a White House fellow in 2006, a position that served as the launchpad for his political career. Moore has already faced considerable scrutiny for falsely claiming in that document to have received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan and for claiming his University of Oxford graduate thesis (a document he never submitted, as required, to the school’s Bodleian Library) made him widely recognized as a foremost expert of radical Islam. Spotlight’s investigation stemmed from a third claim Moore made in the application: that he became the youngest commissioned U.S. Army officer in 1998 at 19 years old. Spotlight reports that in fact, Moore delayed attending his basic officer training course by nearly seven years, making him an undeployable asset during the first several years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
All the while, Moore harbored political aspirations from the start of his military career, telling the Baltimore Sun in 2006 that he had long dreamed of becoming governor of Maryland and that he was nicknamed "Mr. President" as a teenager.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wes-moore-shirked-his-military-obligations-for-years-investigation-finds-barely-showing-up-despite-army-paying-tuition-democrats-service-record-again-under-fire/
