Posted on 08/08/2024 6:43:30 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec
JD Vance is ranked an Expert on both Rifle and Pistol on his USMC Records
8:00 PM · Aug 8, 2024
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The Left is saying JD was a REMF in Iraq.
Oooh! BURN!
I have fond memories of fantail fire qualifying in the middle of the pacific.
He was a United States Marine. This is a given to me. I knew nuclear power plants. The Navy taught me that. The marines and army guys I know are familiar to the nth degree with the weapons they used. Ain’t no mystery here.
And maybe JD was REMF in Iraq...Someone has to do the job—at least he went, right? I had a buddy on the tanks with me and he managed to wrangle TDY as a Ski Lift Operator in Berchestgarten for about a year or so... Hey, if you can get it—cool beans.
Incorrect syntax. He's not "ranked," " neither is he "an expert," he "scored" expert in rile and pistol qualifications. That means his numerical score was at least as high as whatever the Corps considers "Expert," that doesn't make him "an expert."
Achieving the Expert score also qualifies the person to wear a ribbon designating the accomplishment. In my day the early 70’s you had to score 180 out of 200 to get the ribbon. I know I missed it at 172. It was an old Gerand though and I loved the rifle, best day of Navy basic. Marines are held to a tighter training regime and were a bit more practiced and competent than us swabbies back then. JD qualified and did his time. Walz did his time but just likes to embellish it a bunch. That irritates some of us who don’t.
The Arizona cue-ball sissy...
Technically it's a Rifle Expert Badge/Pistol Expert Badge for Marines. That's a step above the Sharpshooter Badge and 2 steps above the Marksman Badge. In the Navy, we have a medal that corresponds to the Expert Badge, while the Sharpshooter gets a ribbon and the Marksman gets nothing. If you can't score at least Sharpshooter, you need more range time...
Yeah, I’m getting old now and my basic training wasn’t to big on shooting. They shoveled us thru to our next station. Me, I was submarines as a mechanic. All my interests came from my dad. He was in the 82nd airborne. It’s how I knew how to load a M1 without messing up my thumb. I got one now that was assembled, probably by ladies in Springfield Armory, in 1943. It’s my opinion, that if you are a Marine , you have learned your shitz, at least that’s what my dad said but he jumped out of airplanes that weren’t crashing. It’s a funny world we live in now. The guys I know figure Nam kinda screwed the issue. My Nam era friends are thinning out. I still can’t shoot that damn M1 at 200yds better with more practice. Glad I didn’t join the Marines. Regards
From the interwebs: “After graduating from Middletown High School, Vance joined the US Marine Corps, where he served from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent in a non-combative role, including a six-month deployment in the public affairs department in Iraq.”
Another article said he was in Iraq in the later part of 2005. 2005 was when they had the election (purple fingers). There were also numerous suicide bombers and attacks throughout the country in the fall of 2005.
Question? In a country that uses women and kids to kill you and you’re in that country, are you in a war zone. Lebanon, Saigon, Somalia, just what the hell is combat. A kid throws a grenade in your truck, a women walks up to your guard post then blows up, you are in a jeep and it blows up from an IED. Any of that shit happen in Italy? It damn sure did in Iraq and elsewhere.
“The Left is saying JD was a REMF in Iraq.”
Like Gore in Vietnam.
I totally get the stolen valor portion of this debacle/debate.
Did Walz retire, or quit? Was this a reserve or National Guard retirement? People retire (or quit) all the time, advancments are based on slots being filled by billets opening up towards the top of the pyrimid. Someone was advanced and filled the vacancy, that’s normal and frequent occurance.
But the stolen valor claims of voicing a higher rank after retirement have been validated, and using that for self promotion is inexcusable. It’s flagrant abuse, Walz is a liar.
“But the stolen valor claims of voicing a higher rank after retirement have been validated, and using that for self promotion is inexcusable. It’s flagrant abuse, Walz is a liar”
Walz was a provisional Command Master Chief when he retired but since he hadn’t completed all of requirements, the rank wasn’t permanent so for retirement benefits purposes, his rank was reduced to Master Sargent after he left the service .
“Did Walz retire, or quit? “
He had over 20 years in. He retired .
He had over 20 years in HOWEVER he re uped and had 2 years left on his reenlistment SO I see it as quitting!!
“He had over 20 years in HOWEVER he re uped and had 2 years left on his reenlistment SO I see it as quitting!!”
It’s my understanding that once you have 20 years in, a soldier can put in for retirement at any time regardless of how many years left on the current enlistment.
I think it was September 10, 2005 where there were a dozen car bombs that day throughout Iraq, with about 150 dead. While Vance may not have been in “combat operations”, he was a combat correspondent - and in a war zone. Doing this instead of going to college, so he was young. But I bet he grew up pretty fast in the Marines - and in Iraq.
Anyway - Vance was in a combat zone at a young age.
As a marine, that has to be the standard. You won’t get promoted without it.
I grew up in a NRA family - my 100 shot grouping in basic, with a weapon I’d never handled before, was about the size of a large grapefruit. And Dad and I shot pistol competition at ranges - won a color TV in the 60s...
I would imagine he might be a good shot. He grew up in a culture with guns.
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