Wikipedia Scrubbing JD Vance's medals
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Of course the clip on his voice is "Vance questions witnessses on the effectiveness of Russian sanctions." They leave no stone unturned in forming their propaganda.
So, the DoD distinguishes between service awards and Personal Military Decorations (PMDs). Service awards include campaign medals, good conduct and longevity medals/ribbons, etc. These are generally awarded on a non-discretionary basis, i.e. if you meet the criteria for the award, it's yours. You can even go back years after you left the service and if you met the criteria for an award that wasn't put in your records they will correct it for you.
PMDs require a nomination from your chain of command, and can be given for any number of acts deemed worthy of recognition. The act being recognized will be unique to the individual. The lowest PMD is the Achievement Medal, followed by the Commendation Medal. Each service has their own version of these medals, and there is a joint service version as well. Although these awards aren't given automatically, it's the custom of the service for members to get one every few years, with the grade of the medal generally correlating to their rank. For a junior enlisted member who only served one enlistment, you would expect to see either an Achievement or Commendation Medal. The Marines are known for being stingy with medals, so it's not an immediate red flag that all he got was a single Achievement Medal during his service.
It's customary in official biographies to only list PMDs and omit all the awards below Achievement Medal, so Wikipedia MAY be following that standard. Nonetheless, the timing for the edit is highly suspect and I would want to see if the same edit is being made to other military figures that have their decorations listed on their Wikipedia page. I certainly wouldn't default to giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I looked up about 20 entries of US service members and it tracks with what you said, seems like a formatting thing.
Personally I understand but listing deployment medals and ribbons would make sense but they have battle/wars in the box so eh, that's good enough I suppose?
as I type that I see on tim walz wiki on battle/wars it has:
War in Afghanistan - Operation Enduring Freedom
-_-! I'm out of words. I'm going to go watch wrestling now.
heh many participation medals
In a way, could this constitute stolen valor (perhaps erased)?
The Good conduct medals are gimme medals anyway. I wouldn't put mine on a wiki page because it's not really a hard accomplishment.
They're willing to alter history and people out there still believe they wouldn't rig an election.
I popped in the talk section a week ago and they were arguing the false couch fleshlight story belonged on his page because it was "significant to the campaign" since so many people were discussing it. I'm glad there are at least a few sane people spending their time editing articles.
The couch thing is one of the more terrifying loads of horseshit that has been dumped on the public. There is absolutely nothing in Vance's life that could even be twisted into that story, however grossly misinterpreted, and yet the other VP candidate is repeating this fabrication at rallies knowing full well what he is doing. The attitude seems to be that their control of the media is so absolute that they can make anything up about anybody without consequences.
You are absolutely correct, complete fabrication from an old meme. Multiple people have referenced it at Harris rallies now including the VP candidate as you said. My only hope is Vance fights fire with fire and makes some references to Walz and horse semen.
Or a substantive reference to Walz being a groomer (it's only a matter of time until this comes out).
Definitely. Sometimes it can be hard to separate wishful thinking from actual smoke but I've been seeing a lot of chatter about this on twitter. I would say a grown man who is pretty obviously a closeted homosexual pushing for access to homosexual adolescents via a "club" is extremely suspect.
Most stupid things people vote for are voted for by women on crazy pills. Completely changes their ability to think clearly even more than being a woman already did. Most leftist types have an endless list of mental conditions and personality disorders they’ve been diagnosed with. I’m not sure why people like that should be encouraged to vote when they’re verifiably out of their mind and seemingly proud of it.