Left: Official portrait of JD Vance by US Marine Corps, dated 2003. Right: Fellow marine Cullen Tiernan and JD Vance. (United States Department of Defense / Cullen Tiernan) JD Vance sparked a ...

Marine Corps Veteran Backs JD Vance In 'Stolen Valor' Row With Tim Walz A Look At Tim Walz's Military Record Foreman added ...

At its surface, Stolen Valor is a legal term used to describe ... Ohio and a veteran who served four years as a public affairs Marine and deployed to Iraq for six months – has used these ...

following year Accusing Walz of “stolen valor,” Vance has alleged he ... I did it,” Vance, a former Marine who was deployed to Iraq, said previously. “When Tim Walz was asked by his ...

Instead, Vance served as “a public affairs marine” who often acted as a press escort, or as a documentarian, writing dispatches about or taking photos of fellow service members at work.

In a twist of events, this led to accusations of stolen valor and questions about how ... who served in the Marine Corps. MilToker Russell Ellis (@jolly_good_ginger) was also peeved by the stunt.

At its surface, Stolen Valor is a legal term used to describe people who claim gallant military awards – like the Purple Heart or Medal of Honor – they did not earn in an effort to gain money ...

Full stop. He was not a warrior — “I was lucky to escape any real fighting,” he recalls of his service in Iraq. Instead, Vance served as “a public affairs marine” who often acted as a press escort, or ...

However, when Ellis accuses Tim Walz of “stolen valor” in a recent letter, I must object. He seems to be referring to Walz’s response to the 2018 Parkland school shooting in which Walz used ...

Misrepresenting your rank is not just lying—it’s stolen valor, pure and simple. A History of Abandoning His Fellow Soldiers Walz’s dishonesty goes beyond self-aggrandizement. In 2006 ...

JD Vance’s allegation that Tim Walz committed “stolen valor” by his loose reference to the rank he held when departing the National Guard after 24 years of service, and that he tried to ...