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Roger La Plante is a United States military veteran, volunteer service officer and veterans advocate for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is known for representing the military everyman in opposition to what he regards as the United States government's strategy of continuous war, and the impact that this has had on individual soldiers, the environment, and the economy. He is known for fighting corruption in the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex” and representing and advocating for veterans, active duty soldiers, and military reserves before the Veterans Administration and before Congress. He is a military engineer and combat veteran of Operation Desert Storm, who became a target for making military documentaries and whistleblowing. When he became a candidate for United States Congress in 2016, he was noted in the media as not fitting “the mold of the normal Vet running for Congress", and for having changed political parties from Republican to Democrat, after he claimed to have observed corruption.