Another video featuring Senate candidate Mark Kirk of Illinois making false claims of being the Navy's intelligence officer of the year has surfaced as he campaigns for a seat once held by President Barack Obama. Kirk, a five-term Republican congressman and Navy reservist from Chicago's northern suburbs, said last week that the 1999 award was actually given to an ad-hoc intelligence team he created and ran, not to him individually. A Senate campaign Web video made the intelligence officer of the year assertion as an image of Kirk, 50, in a fighter jet is shown. Previously, the only reported video of Kirk making the claim was on C-SPAN during a 2002 congressional hearing. 'It's fitting that a campaign video designed to introduce Congressman Mark Kirk to the people of Illinois includes prominent mention of an award he didn't receive,' said Matt McGrath, a spokesman for Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrat competing for the seat. 'He is a typical Washington politician who will say anything for political gain.' The misstatement about the award was first reported by the Washington Post on May 29. The Kirk campaign video is archived on the YouTube video service on the Internet. Over the Memorial Day weekend -- one devoted to honoring military service -- Giannoulias and Kirk fought over the character issue in a race that could help determine control of the Senate. The correction by Kirk, who has made his military service a central part of his campaign, comes as candidates face greater scrutiny about such claims following misstatements by Democrat Richard Blumenthal, a Senate candidate in Connecticut, about service in Vietnam. 'My corrected biography accurately shows I received the United States Navy Rufus L. Taylor Intelligence Award,' Kirk said last week. 'I will not let my 21 years of service in uniform be denigrated by Alexi Giannoulias, a man who chose not to serve.' Kirk also called Giannoulias, 34, a 'failed mob banker,' a reference to a family bank that made loans to people with criminal records that was closed by regulators in April. The seat Kirk and Giannoulias are fighting for is now held by Sen. Roland Burris, a Democrat who was appointed to finish the term Obama won in 2004. Burris isn't seeking a full term. 