It is most likely that Mallory Ervin, the former Miss Kentucky and Amazing race contestant knows of Rand Paul. How well she knows him or of him is only known by her and Rand Paul.

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There is no concrete evidence to suggest that the story of Paul Mallory and his dog Tank is true. It is always important to verify the authenticity of stories before sharing or believing them.

There is no record of him, no military record, no record of a Paul Mallory receiving a Silver Star and in the list of military deaths for the USA there is no Paul Mallory. Snopes.com searches even further and looks at silver start recipients who have no siblings and all recipients have a sibling. You can read their article here. Snopes.com goes on to state that there are several factors that are iffy in this story: That a shelter would hold a dog indefinitely, that the dog owner never told the shelter the dogs real name and that Tanks new owner didn't read the letter from Paul Mallory straight away.

1. Spanish: Mallory
2. French: Mallory
3. German: Mallory
4. Italian: Mallory
5. Russian: Маллори (Mallori)