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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just dumb poor white trash from Appalachia who enlisted on a whim as a teen during a hot war and gets the cushiest desk post there is. What are the odds.[/quote]

There are no “desk jobs” for lower enlisted Marines on deployment.  [/quote]

I suggest those of you trashing his four-year military service read this.  No, he did not see combat - as he VERY CLEARLY states in this piece.  He did, however, learn a lot of very valuable lessons that it appears many of you have never learned.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-07-16/vance-trump-marines-vice-president-republicans-14505177.html[/quote]

He very clearly states he was attached to units, when on missions and was in dangerous situations in unsecured areas. He got lucky that is wasn’t injured or killed, but he was most definitely in harms way and putting his life on the line. I worked as an active duty nurse and we had causalities from all different units and MOSs, not just infantry, including some of own nurses. So take a seat and stay in your lane. [/quote]

PP here and I agree with you.  I think you misunderstood what I was saying.  Trolls have claimed that Vance made the claim that he "had seen combat," when in reality he had not.  I was providing that link to show that he never made that claim - ever - and that in fact, he's very open about what his assignments were.  I agree that he was in harm's way merely by being in the military.  IOW, he never claimed to be anything he was not, unlike what the trolls would have everyone believe.[/quote]

JD Vance was a public affairs REMF.  He mostly did desk duty and the occasional photo op.[/quote]

WASHINGTON — Long before J.D. Vance became the Republican nominee for vice president, he was known as Cpl. James D. Hamel, a combat correspondent in the Marine Corps. Vance, now a senator from Ohio, enlisted after graduating from high school in 2003 and served for four years, including a six-month stint in Iraq beginning in late 2005.

He spent his service working in public affairs, writing about Marines and taking photographs of their work, escorting civilian news reporters and speaking about happenings on base. In Iraq, he embedded with different units to get a sense of their daily routines and wrote a story about a crew keeping KC-130J tankers in the air. He also waded into unprotected Iraqi territory with a civil affairs unit to meet with locals.

“I was lucky to escape any real fighting,” Vance wrote of his deployment. In his last nine months in service, Vance said he unexpectedly became a media relations officer at Cherry Point — a position typically reserved for the most senior Marines. The job involved liaising with news media, considered the “holy grail” of Marine Corps public affairs with the “biggest audience and the highest stakes.” “The experience taught me a valuable lesson: That I could do it. I could work 20-hour days when I had to. I could speak clearly and confidently with TV cameras shoved in my face. I could stand in a room with majors, colonels, and generals and hold my own. I could do a captain’s job even when I feared I couldn’t,” he wrote.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-07-16/vance-trump-marines-vice-president-republicans-14505177.html[/quote]

What a coincidence the totally unhooked allegedly poor hick from Ohio got the cushiest gig there is and never saw combat while all the actual white trash men were canon fodder after 9/11. Then has the nerve to boast about his “service” and imply he is some front line ME vet. [/quote]

He is smart and set himself apart, starting from scoring high on in processing tests, to doing his job well.  What’s your theory? His middle class Grandpa that “payed cash for a Buick” had some deep national connections to influence military placement? Get out of here. [/quote]

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