Barnette has inconsistently emphasized her military service record on her campaign website and in interviews conducted since 2017. According to her campaign website, “Kathy served her country proudly for 10 years in the Armed Forces Reserves where she was accepted into Officer Candidacy School.” However, according to military.com, there appears to be no such branch as the “Armed Forces Reserves.”
“The Reserve components of the Armed Forces are: The Army National Guard of the United States, the Army Reserve, the Navy Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the Air National Guard of the United States, the Air Force Reserve and the Coast Guard Reserve,” the website says.
In a radio interview conducted in November 2017, Barnette said that she “served in the U.S. Army for the majority of my 10 years in the military.”
