MILWAUKEE: A Democratic Wisconsin congressman on Friday accused his Republican opponent of sexual harassment over a 2015 memoir in which the former Navy Seal wrote of exposing a male lieutenant’s genitals to two female junior officers while the lieutenant was being treated for poison oak at a military hospital.
Derrick Van Orden, who faces Rep. Ron Kind in November, said he was simply training the officers in possible medical treatments.
Van Orden wrote about the incident in Book of Man: A Navy SEALs Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood. Van Orden wrote about a five-day training mission in which he and other SEALS had to hide in rabbit holes in brush that included poison oak causing breathing problems and other ailments, including swollen testicles.
One lieutenant was later taken to a Naval hospital, where he sat with…