The military record of a Republican candidate for Douglas County commissioner has sparked criticism from political opponents and veterans, with the county’s sheriff breaking with his own party to support the Democrat in the race. George Teal On his campaign biography, George Teal, a Castle Rock town council member, touts himself as a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 military campaign to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait. But Teal served in Germany during the Gulf War, never seeing combat. In May, Teal was disqualified from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with the state’s VFW commander expressing concern in a letter to the Castle Rock mayor that Teal’s characterization on the city website was a “misrepresentation of his actual service.” “He didn’t serve in a combat zone,” Bruce Dolan, the Colorado VFW’s state adjutant and quartermaster, told The Denver Post.