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Depending on which oversimplified media narrative you prefer, Robert Swan Mueller III is either America’s Last Best Hope Against Despotism, or he’s a Power-Drunk Deep State Conniver Hellbent On Getting The President.

But before he became the polarizing “special counsel” tasked with investigating President Donald Trump’s campaign and its possible connections to Russia, and before he ran the FBI for 12 years under two presidents from different parties, Mueller was another freshly-minted looie traipsing around Vietnam’s DMZ, directing Marines to fire and maneuver around their North Vietnamese enemies.

Like most memes of our age, Mueller’s past as an officer of Marines has been bandied about in media but rarely explored in any depth. That changed this week with Wired’s publication of “The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in Combat,” a long, deep dive by natio