Posted on 04/11/2007 2:00:56 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN DIEGO, (AP) -- Congressional hopeful and Marine reservist Duncan Duane Hunter has been recalled to active duty, but he says going to war won't interfere with his political aspirations.
Hunter, 30, is running for the seat now held by his father, 14-term U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, a conservative who is the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. The elder Hunter, who is making a long-shot presidential bid, has said he will leave politics if he does not win the Republican nomination.
It will be the third deployment for the younger Hunter, who joined the Marines in 2002 and is now an artillery captain. He served in Baghdad in 2003 and in the first battle of Fallujah in 2004. He was unsure where he'd be sent this time, but said most likely it would be back to Iraq.
Hunter is one of about 1,800 reservists the Marine Corps recently recalled to active duty, citing a shortage of volunteers to fill some jobs in Iraq.
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WOW.
Hope he hasn’t any (horrors of horrors) tattoos. Also hope he never has to engage the enemy because then the gutless generals, JAGs and NCIS investigators will hang him out to dry for defending himself.
Good luck and God Bless You, Capt. Hunter. With the cowardly goobers now in charge of this fight, there is as much danger from the rear as there is from the front.
Happy Hunting, Hunter!
Ping
The United States MUST remember that if we don’t fight them there, we will fight them here. Men such as Hunter is what it is all about....
Right now on John Gibson on FOX he will be interviewing Duncan Hunter, the son in the Marines
>>Right now on John Gibson on FOX he will be interviewing Duncan Hunter, the son in the Marines<<
I saw the interview. What a classy, smart, honest young man.
there is something credible about a candidate (i.e. duncan hunter) who has his son going off to iraq to fight! i’d give my vote to hunter, if i were an american.
Well, dang!! I wish you were an American, we need more like you!
NZ is also doing their part in the WOT
10 posts and no one has blamed Bush or Rove. New record.
(just kidding, of course. Maybe.)
That’s US cities, by the way.
A shame that, according to DOD regulations, a soldier on active duty can’t hold or run for an elective office.
>>A shame that, according to DOD regulations, a soldier on active duty can’t hold or run for an elective office.<<
Are you sure about that - he’s been saying all day he is still running.
If we as a nation are to take this war seriously, I'm afraid it will have to come here. Although, even then, who knows, after all we have been invaded and occupied by some 12 million plus wetbacks and they have more representation and friends in Congress than I do.
Yeah, if we don’t fight ‘them’ over there we’ll end up being invaded by 15-20 million illegal aliens trying to takeover our country.....uh, wait a minute..never mind.
http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/ethics_regulation/1344-10.html
1. General
a. A member on AD may:
(1) Register, vote, and express his or her personal opinion on political candidates and issues, but not as a representative of the Armed Forces.
(2) Make monetary contributions to a political organization-
(3) Attend partisan and nonpartisan political meetings or rallies as a spectator when not in uniform.
b. A member on AD shall not:
(1) Use his or her official authority or influence for interfering with an election; affecting the course or outcome of an election; soliciting votes for a particular candidate or issue; or requiring or soliciting political contributions from others.
(2) Be a candidate for, or hold, civil office except as authorized in subsections D.2. and D.3., below.
(3) Participate in partisan political management, campaigns, or conventions.
(4) Make campaign contributions to another r of the Armed Forces or an employee of the Federal Government.
c. To assist in applying paragraphs D.1-a- and D.l.b., above, to particular situations, enclosure 3 provides guidelines and examples of permissible and prohibited political activities. The guidelines in enclosure 3 do not supersede other specific requirements and policies, such as those established in DoD Directives 5200.2 and 1325.6 (references (c) and (d)).
d. Enclosure 4 provides a summary of Federal statutes restricting certain types of political activities by members of the Armed Forces.
2. Candidacy for Elective Office. A member on AD may not:
a. Campaign as a nominee, or as a candidate for nomination, for civil office, except as authorized in paragraph D.3.c., below. When circumstances warrant, the Secretary concerned or the Secretary’s designee my permit a member to file such evidence of nomination or candidacy for nomination, as may be required by law. Such permission shall not authorize activity while on AD that is otherwise prohibited in paragraph D.l.b., above, or enclosure 3 or 4.
b. Become a candidate for any civil office while serving an initial tour of extended active duty (EAD) or a tour of EAD that the member agreed to perform as a condition of receiving schooling or other training wholly or partly at U.S. Government expense.
3. Election or Appointment to Civil Office
a. Except as authorized by paragraph D.3.c., below, or otherwise provided for by law, no member on AD may hold or exercise the functions of civil office:
(1) In the U.S. Government that:
(a) Is an elective office.
(b) Requires an appointment by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(c) Is a position on the executive schedule under sections 5312 through 5317 of reference (e).
(2) In the government of a State; the District of Columbia; a territory, possession, or commonwealth of the United States; or in any political subdivision thereof.
Which is why Hunter has been arguing for a border fence.
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