Fuck JD Vance

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48. Vance's military record under scrutiny

Published Aug 09, 2024 at 7:15 AM EDT
Updated Aug 09, 2024 at 4:38 PM EDT
By Ewan Palmer

... Walz, who spent 24 years in the National Guard, left in 2005 months before the battalion he led was notified that it would to be deployed to Iraq. Vance also appeared to reference previous comments from Walz in which the governor said, "We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons were at."

"Well, I wonder Tim Walz, when were you ever in war?" Vance said. "What was this weapon that you carried into war given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to Iraq, and he has not spent a day in a combat zone?"

Vance himself served in the Marine Corps for four years, and he also never saw combat. He worked as a combat correspondent in Iraq between August 2005 and February 2006 ...

Alexander Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, wrote ... "Vance enlisted & served 4 yrs, including 6 months in Iraq in 2005 as a reporter w/ a Public Affairs section of a Marine Aircraft Wing ...

https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-military-record-combat-correspondent-tim-walz-1936875