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On February 23, 2015, McDonald admitted he misspoke trying to engage a homeless veteran on January 30, 2015, about his serving in the [[Special Forces (United States Army)|U.S. Army Special Forces]], a conversation that was recorded by a CBS television news crew accompanying him during a nationwide count of homeless veterans. "I have no excuse, I was not in the special forces" he told ''The Huffington Post'', which first broke the story.<ref name=hp>{{cite web|last1=Huffington Post|title=VA Secretary Robert McDonald Falsely Claimed He Served In Special Forces|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/robert-mcdonald-special-forces_n_6739184.html |website=The Huffington Post|access-date=February 24, 2015}}</ref> ''The Huffington Post'' reported that "special operations forces" includes the [[United States Army Rangers|Army Rangers]] and that McDonald "completed Army Ranger training and took courses in jungle, arctic and desert warfare. He qualified as a senior parachutist and airborne jumpmaster, and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division until he resigned his commission in 1980. While he earned a [[Ranger tab]] designating him as a graduate of [[Ranger School]], he never served in a Ranger battalion or any other special operations unit.<ref name="hp"/>"
On May 23, 2016, Secretary McDonald stated that Disney does not measure wait times at its amusement parks, arguing that VA wait times are not an important measure. This statement was viewed as both insensitive to patients and incorrect, as Disney does measure wait times.<ref name="Disney Remark">{{cite web|last1=Washington Post|title=Disney Remark |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/23/va-chief-compares-waits-for-veteran-care-to-disneyland-they-dont-measure-and-we-shouldnt-either/?hpid=hp_local-news_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory|access-date=May 23, 2016}}</ref>
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