Captain Mark Kelly "Hey JD Vance , did you forget what the USMC taught you about respect?"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Captain Mark Kelly
Hey @JDVance, did you forget what the USMC taught you about respect? Tim Walz spent DECADES in uniform.

You both deserve to be thanked for your service. Don’t become Donald Trump. He calls veterans suckers and losers and that is beneath those of us who have actually served.

[wishstar]

1. Great to see and I was pleased with how Tim Walz expressed support for Vance's service

rather than denigrating a fellow veteran

[BoRaGard]

2. k and r

[BootinUp]

3. I'm sure he remembers, but he chose the way of

The Sith.

[Cosmocat]

4. Yeah, Vance is a wanna be Trump

Scorpion and the frog situation here.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Nobody does Trump as well as Trump.

Vance will learn this the hard way.

[Cosmocat]

9. Oh, yeah

He will be road kill in the rear view mirror when Trump is done with him for sure.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Hard to tell who will slap the crap out of him first.

There seems to be a line forming for that honor.

[Emile]

6. Disrespecting another veteran service will backfire on JD Vance.

[Zoomie1986]

17. Ask Al Gore and John Kerry about that one

Plenty of military members and vets disrespected their service--with glee.

[TheJillMill]

7. A commenter on a Washington Post article called Vance...

Corporal Desk Job!

[dalton99a]

10. 100% accurate

[Zoomie1986]

18. LOL

I hate to say that he asked for it.

Look, there's nothing wrong with the job he did. Someone has to do it.

The problem is thinking that his service was superior to that of another veteran who achieved a higher rank and devoted more years to it.

It's like the people who sneer at the REMFs. Well, bud, if it weren't for the people behind you, you'd be out there in the field with broken comm units, and without your field rations or ammo to shoot down a meal. Hope you enjoy the dysentery when you don't get your Chlor-Floc packs.

[TomSlick]

20. I suggest Corporal REMF.

[Skittles]

22. nothing wrong with military desk jobs

something seriously wrong with someone pimping for Cadet Bonespurs while trashing the military service of another

[Brainfodder]

8. All bad acting for votes.

Slime the other superior candidate nonsense taken to levels less travelled but now Republican mandatory?

Reagan, Gingrich, Mitch, and other hall of shame 1st ballot weiners and those after....

[spanone]

12. K&R

& fuck vance.

[LaMouffette]

13. Vance is trying to make people think that Walz retired to avoid real fighting, but Vance did not do any real fighting.

I respect all military members. No matter what their job was/is in the military, they all serve important functions.

But Vance himself was a journalist in the military, not a combat soldier, as he states in this excerpt from his HIllbilly Elegy book:

From HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance Copyright © 2016 by J.D. Vance. Reprinted courtesy of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

My final two years in the Marines flew by and were largely uneventful, though two incidents stand out, each of which speaks to the way the Marine Corps changed my perspective. The first was a moment in time in Iraq, where I was lucky to escape any real fighting but which affected me deeply nonetheless. As a public affairs marine, I would attach to different units to get a sense of their daily routine. Sometimes I’d escort civilian press, but generally I’d take photos or write short stories about individual marines or their work. Early in my deployment, I attached to a civil affairs unit to do community outreach. Civil affairs missions were typically considered more dangerous, as a small number of marines would venture into unprotected Iraqi territory to meet with locals. On our particular mission, senior marines met with local school officials while the rest of us provided security or hung out with the schoolkids, playing soccer and passing out candy and school supplies. One very shy boy approached me and held out his hand. When I gave him a small eraser, his face briefly lit up with joy before he ran away to his family, holding his two-cent prize aloft in triumph. I have never seen such excitement on a child’s face.

https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2016/09/j-d-vance-learned-marine-corps

And this from USA Today:

In his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, as excerpted by Military.com, Vance described the press as “the holy grail of the Marine Corps public affairs: the biggest audience and the highest stakes.”

For the last nine months of his service, Vance was the media relations officer for the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina, one of the largest military bases on the East Coast. ...

Vance was deployed to Iraq for six months in late 2005. Based on his memoir, he would “attach to different units to get a sense of their daily routine,” escort civilian press, and write stories about individual marines.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/was-jd-vance-marine-military/74411600007/

So STFU about Tim Walz's decades of service in the military, JD.

[Talitha]

15. I never read the book, but am wondering if Vance tried comparing himself to Ernie Pyle.

Or should we look forward to that in 3... 2... 1...

[LaMouffette]

19. I bet you're right!

[IronLionZion]

14. Yup, and Kelly was a Navy Pilot, like Top Gun type

Shady Vance is just feeling jealous of these guys

[UTUSN]

16. K&R

[Cha]

21. Kick for an Excellent Tweet by Captain Kelly

[FlyingPiggy]

23. Good lord, is Vance capable of opening his mouth and NOT shoving his foot down every time??

The man is a hot pile of 💩💩💩

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

24. He's the perfect mate for Trumpski:

Dishonest enough to tell him how great he is, even after completely trashing him publically. And almost as weird.