Come November, vice presidential nominees JD Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, and Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, would be the first post-9/11 veterans to make it onto a presidential poll.
Army Instances want to be taught extra about their time in uniform. Did you serve with Walz or Vance, who served beneath the identify James D. Hamel? In that case, we need to hear from you. When and the place did you serve with them? What impression did they depart?
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Vance joined the Marine Corps in 2003 beneath the identify James D. Hamel and served a four-year enlistment as a fight correspondent. He deployed to Iraq with the 2nd Marine Plane Wing from August 2005 to February 2006. His final obligation station was Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Level, North Carolina.
Walz served 24 years within the Military Nationwide Guard. He joined the Nebraska Nationwide Guard in 1981, and he transferred in 1996 to the Minnesota Nationwide Guard, the place he served within the 1st Battalion, a hundred and twenty fifth Subject Artillery. In August 2003, Walz mobilized with the unit in help of Operation Enduring Freedom and was stationed in Vicenza, Italy.
Nikki Wentling covers disinformation and extremism for Army Instances. She’s reported on veterans and navy communities for eight years and has additionally lined expertise, politics, well being care and crime. Her work has earned a number of honors from the Nationwide Coalition for Homeless Veterans, the Arkansas Related Press Managing Editors and others.
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