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ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. -- With just about a week to go until Election Day, republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino hit the campaign trail.

Paladino stumped in Orange County, meeting with republican leaders. He faced questions about a flap over his military service.

An article in the NY Post found that Paladino's claims that he trained soldiers at Fort Bliss for six months during the Vietnam War are false. He was actually only there for three months.

Paladino says the confusion comes from the fact that he was supposed to be there for six months, but was let go early.

"The Army was riffing at the time. They were cutting back in the number of officers. The war was winding down, so they allowed those officers that were going to go reserve going into the reserve. I then served 10 years in the reserve," Paladino said.

Paladino has said previously that his controversial "Dignity Corps" plan was inspired by his time in the service. He's said that as part of the program, people would be taught life skills including personal hygiene and housed in abandoned or underused prisons or college dorms.

The Cuomo campaign tried to make this story an issue on the trail, by attacking Paladino for making false statements. But Paladino's lieutenant governor candidate Greg Edwards says he welcomes any discussion of military service, because Andrew Cuomo never served.