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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...
U.S. military recruitment has reversed years of shortfalls and is up in 2024–25: the Army contracted more than 61,000 recruits for FY2025—about 10% higher than its FY2024 goal—and the services reporte...
Erika (also spelled Erica) Kirk is a public figure tied to conservative activism and multiple charitable mentions; fact-checking shows she was linked to a Romanian sponsorship project for an orphanage...
Reporting beginning with a 2020 Atlantic story says Donald Trump privately called some U.S. war dead “losers” and U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood “suckers,” a claim the former president has repeatedly de...
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...
Available reporting identifies a Romanian orphanage referred to as "Orphanage Antonio" (also written as Antonio Placement Center) located in Constanța, Romania, as the facility linked to Erika (née Fr...
Retired U.S. service members can, in specific circumstances, be subject to military prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); courts and recent Pentagon practice have reaffirmed t...
Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) ran a small nonprofit, Everyday Heroes Like You, that between about 2012–2014 promoted a “Romanian Angels” project sending gifts, letters and visits to children in Romanian i...
The President can order U.S. Marines (and other forces) into action without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; longstanding practice, Department of Justice and Office of Legal Counsel reas...
Everyday Heroes Like You is a small U.S. nonprofit founded by Erika Frantzve (also known as Erika Kirk) that describes itself as promoting and assisting other charities and “everyday heroes,” with nat...
Vice President JD Vance attended a mix of domestic political conferences, military visits, White House meetings and health-policy summits in 2025: notably Turning Point/ AmericaFest appearances and a ...
Two independent items in the provided evidence report J.D. Vance’s height as ; no source in the record confirms a measured height taken while he was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. Multiple items ex...
Raytheon Technologies’ business intersects with Israeli defense programs through specific technology transfers, joint production arrangements, and program adaptations that draw on Israeli systems such...
The seizure was carried out by a mix of law‑enforcement and military elements: U.S. authorities say FBI and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Coast Guard executed a seizure warrant “...
JD Vance left the Marines in 2007, used the G.I. Bill to enroll at Ohio State University where he graduated summa cum laude in 2009, then entered Yale Law School in 2010 and earned a J.D. in 2013; aft...
J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy frames the problems of white, working‑class Americans as rooted largely in culture—family breakdown, learned helplessness, pessimism and unhealthy habits—while repeatedly ...
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...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 and has been reported to have received several standard service medals, most notably the and the , along with campaign and service r...
The Bronze Star was created in 1944 and, from the start, could distinguish meritorious service from combat heroism by the addition of a small "V" device—first authorized by the Army in 1945 and adopte...