WTF? Senator Brown is suggesting he might do missions in Afganistan

[karynnj]

If it weren't the Boston Globe, I would think it someone misinterpreting a Senate trip.

Senator Scott Brown said this morning that he is being sent to Afghanistan, but the member of the Massachusetts National Guard would not say if he is being formally deployed.

“I will put out a statement later about my involvement," Brown told The Boston Globe in a brief telephone interview. "I’m going to be going over at some point to do some missions.”

Asked if he were being deployed, the Army lieutenant colonel said, "I didn't say that."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/brown_heading_f.html?camp=misc:on:twit:rtbutton
This is beyond weird in its timing. It is hard to believe that President Obama would send him as an emissary, as he has sent Kerry - who does not refer to them as missions. There are plenty of people on the Senate Arms Services Committee who have real military experience - which Brown doesn't.

Is this Senator Walter Mitty? Is Brown reacting to the impact of running at the same time a more popular Obama is running?