Exhibit D. Eleanor turned and faced the plaintiff's table directly. Mr. Brennan has spent 5 years marketing himself as a three deployment combat veteran. He has appeared on six podcasts, two televised interviews, and 43 sponsored social posts using this claim.
He has accepted veteran affiliated sponsorships totaling $410,000 based on this claim. She raised a folder. This is the official response from the United States Department of Defense and the National Personnel Records Center pursuant to FOIA request 26-f22- DCS. The response states, and I quote, that there is no record of any branch of service of any individual named Tucker James Brennan matching his date of birth having ever enlisted, served, deployed, or been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States. Eleanor lowered the folder.
Your honor, Mr. Brennan has committed multiple counts of stolen valor under federal statute 18USC section 704. This will be referred to the United States Attorney's Office at the close of this hearing. Tucker's face was bone white. The courtroom was completely silent.
Eleanor was not done. I'd like to call my first witness, Mr. Daniel Reeves, second chair instructor at Apex Combat Academy. Daniel Reeves walked to the stand. 36 years old, sandy hair.
He had been Tucker's quiet number two for four years. He had also been keeping notes. Mr. Reeves, how many times in the past 3 weeks did you hear Mr. Brennan use the phrase too weak for combat in reference to my client?
Seven times. And how would you characterize his behavior toward Miss Williams? Daniel took a long breath. It was harassment. It was racial.
It was repeated. And every single one of us in the gym was afraid to say anything because Tucker controlled the schedule. He looked at Tucker. I'm done being afraid. The motif broke under oath.
Eleanor called her second witness. The gay-haired man in row 7 stood up. My name is Gunnery Sergeant Martin Hail, United States Marine Corps, retired. I served 28 years. From 2014 to 2018, I served as senior cadre instructor at the Marine Raider Combative Selection Course at Camp Lune.
He paused. Whitney Williams was my colleague. She trained the instructors who trained the Raiders. She held the highest combative certification any Marine can hold, MCMAP Black Belt, sixth degree. She is without exaggeration one of the three most lethal hand-to-h hand fighters I have ever stood next to in uniform.
A reporter in the back stood up. Another one followed. On April 14th, 2019 in Helman Province, Whitney's convoy hit a buried IED. The lead Humvey was on fire. Two Marines were dead.
Three more were trapped inside. Whitney sustained a partial vocal cord laceration from shrapnel and secondderee burns on her right forearm. With her own body on fire, she pulled all three Marines out of the burning vehicle. Two of them are alive today. One of them is sitting in row four of this courtroom.
A man in row four, early 30s, prosthetic right leg, raised his hand. The gunnery sergeant continued. Whitney was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart by direct recommendation from her battalion commander. The citation is a matter of public record. I have a certified copy here.