CNN has seriously been striking out with veterans recently. In addition to allegedly defaming a Navy veteran (get all of NewsBusters latest reporting on the case here), host Brianna Keilar tried to disparage Senator J.D. Vance’s military service as a Marine combat correspondent on Thursday’s Inside Politics, ridiculously suggesting he wasn’t in real danger while in Iraq. But on Friday’s CNN News Central, Vance’s former officer in charge confronted Keilar on her own show, calling her out for being wrong.

On Thursday, Keilar scoffed at Vance’s ability to call out Democratic vice presidential candidate Governor Tim Walz’s lies about seeing combat. She suggested he couldn’t speak to it because he somehow wasn’t in danger while deployed to Iraq:

I also think that J.D. Vance, as a messenger on this, may be an imperfect messenger because we have, as you introduced him as a combat correspondent, which was what his title was. But when you dig a little deeper into that, he was a public affairs specialist someone who did not see combat, which certainly the title “combat correspondent” kind of gives you a different impression. So, he may be the imperfect messenger on that.