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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Smart dude. Lots of guys get out and end up working in career fields where their job in the service doesn’t translate well in terms of skills.

Sounds like he got something out of it that helped him long term. Not sure why there is so much hate for him here. [/quote]

DP.  It's the way he changed from being a Never Trumper to being all in.  It's inauthentic.  [/quote]

Everyone started from that position because DJT didn’t exactly debut in the race as an obvious presidential choice /candidate .

Over time, DJT has become the standard bearer for American labor , populism, and the anti Neo con anti war division of the Republican Party. Trump is one man labor union for the US . He rallies against illegal immigration and international war - both traditionally Republican policies. Remember, Trumps Republican predecessor Dubya was the amnesty and the Iraq war present. What Trumps done by expanding ICE and the federal govt annoys Republican traditionalists and the 1%, but helps white and black America and especially ignored rural and Midwestern Americans get factory jobs. The Democrats are no longer the party of labor . They call these regions  the flyover states which shows you all you need to know about their elitism and insensitivity . Trump stops  by and doesn’t ignore these states as fly overs and you wonder why they made him a national hero? Dems need to realize their failure isn’t that Trump whacks them over the head with the baton  its that they passed the populist baton  to someone like Trump in the first place [/quote]

Well said. [/quote]

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