When President Donald J. Trump picked Ohio’s Republican Sen. James D. “JD” Vance to be his running mate, he opened up the possibility of Vance becoming the first Marine to serve in the Nation’s second highest office.
Vance is the first veteran on a national ticket since Navy veteran Arizona’s Republican Sen. John S. McCain III.
His nomination also marks a generation milestone, as American politics has often been dominated by veterans from the same ear, who all came of age and served together.
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McCain, along with President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, were the last Vietnam veterans to run for president. Vance marks the coming of age of the veterans from the Global War on Terror, which involved nearly two decades of counterinsurgency deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other hot spots,…
