"She knows the VA and gets how important it is to us. Mark Kirk flat out lied repeatedly about his own military service. Now he has the gall to attack Tammy Duckworth on the VA?" says retired Marine Wally Kubicki Jr. in the spot.



While the ad doesn't get into specifics, Kirk was dogged by questions about resume boosting during his successful 2010 campaign. The longtime Navy Reserve officer apologized for inflating parts of his military record, including claims he came under enemy fire in Iraq, that he ran the Pentagon war room and that he was the Navy's intelligence officer of the year.