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JD Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after high school and served from 2003 to 2007 as an enlisted military journalist—commonly called a combat correspondent or public affairs/media relations sp...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 until 2007, and a record of deployment to Iraq for roughly six months in 2005; his service is most commonly described as a rather than as an...
Public records and multiple news outlets report that J.D. Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after high school, served four years (2003–2007) including a roughly six‑month deployment to Iraq, and...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 as an enlisted public affairs specialist — broadly described as a — assigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, and he deployed to Ira...
J.D. Vance served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps (2003–2007) as a combat correspondent and deployed to Iraq for about six months in 2005; multiple service records and news accounts list awards in...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 and was deployed to Iraq for roughly six months during 2005 while assigned as a combat correspondent/public affairs specialist with ...
enlisted in the in 2003 and served roughly four years until 2007, attaining the rank of corporal while working as a combat correspondent/public affairs specialist attached to the , primarily at in ; h...
J.D. Vance has publicly discussed his time in the Marine Corps in his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy and in pieces republished by military outlets, where he describes a 2005–2006 deployment to Iraq and c...