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JD Vance's comment really riled up the vets who came to Walz's defense (slrpnk.net)
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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago

I'm out of the loop on this. Any chance I could ask someone to catch me up?

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 90 points 9 months ago

Walz was in the National Guard for 24 years and put in his resignation well before he learned his unit would be deployed to Iraq.

Vance - who is a Marine who served one tour as a journalist and never saw combat - attacked Walz for 'stolen valor' as he never saw combat.

It's massively hypocritical, has been tried before successfully against John Kerry, (Swiftboating was the term back then) and is coming from the VP of a candidate who avoided Vietnam due to crippling bone spurs, which should make it hard to do shit like play golf.

Both Vance and Walz are veterans. Vance has no grounds to attack Walz's service at all.

[-] cron@feddit.org 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This article summarizes the case. VP Walz left the ~~Marine Corps~~ National Guard after 24 years, and some people accuse him of leaving just before the iraq invasion.

[-] cowfodder@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Minor correction: Walz was in the national guard.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Did he go to the first invasion?

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Afghanistan or iraq part 1 (1991 desert Storm)? It's not mentioned anywhere so probably not.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Indeed. Iraq 2 was the first time National Guard was deployed abroad if I’m not mistaken.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

by taking service in the Air National Guard, which he may or may not have taken seriously. People of a certain age may still see National Guard as a form of draft dodging akin to “bone spurs,” but it’s hard to argue that for a man who spent 20 years there.

When I hear the dude was a teacher and National Guards

My Grand-dad joined the Army National Guard for Korea. They've definitely been deployed overseas before.

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