Posted on 11/10/2024 7:53:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Vice President-elect JD Vance — who is the first Marine to become vice president — on Sunday wished his fellow devil dogs Happy 249th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
“Happy Birthday to my fellow Marines! 249 years and counting!” he posted on X.
Vance, 40, served as an enlisted combat correspondent in the Marine Corps from 2003 t0 2007. He left the Corps as an E-5.
He deployed to Iraq for six months, and was awarded the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism, and the National Defense Service Medal.
According to Military.com, the last enlisted vice president was Al Gore, who served in the Army.
Vance wrote in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, “The Marine Corps demanded that I think strategically about these decisions, and then it taught me how to do so.”
“When I joined the Marine Corps, I did so in part because I wasn’t ready for adulthood. I didn’t know how to balance a checkbook, much less how to complete the financial aid forms for college. Now I knew exactly what I wanted out of my life and how to get there,” he wrote.
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Ooh Rah!
Semper Fi!
Agree. He has been through the crucible.
That will change a person for the better.
Good for him.
(Vice President-elect JD Vance — who is the first Marine to become vice president)
Excellent!!
Actually, both VP candidates were enlisted men, which is pretty rare. James Buchanan was a private in the militia in combat in the War of 1812, and is the only enlisted man who became President.
“I wasn’t ready for adulthood. I didn’t know how to balance a checkbook, much less how to complete the financial aid forms for college.”]
About where i was at 17 and two weeks out of HS.
Hell, I was still mostly lost 4 years later.
Excellent!
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Happy Birthday, Jarheads! Tired of winning yet?
Semper Fi!
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And fittingly, the Marines were said to have been formed in a tavern (Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan)
I like that “first”.
Is it as historic as the first female VP or the first black pres?
Tun Tavern
Both were miserable failers.
And in 2028 will he be the first Marine to serve as President?
As long as he keeps his nose clean and totally supports Trump, one can certainly hope so!
Fraunces Tavern still exists. You can order drinks and sandwiches etc. there.
William McKinley and, for a short time in the militia, Abraham Lincoln.
Next year, for their 250th, I hope President Trump throws them one heck of a party.
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