CNN's bogus attack on Vance service in Iraq

 Townhall:

CNN host Brianna Keilar attacked JD Vance’s record, referring to it yesterday as if it were a trip to a resort. Vance’s deployment wasn’t spring break. It’s not a cushy job either, which was the gross insinuation. It’s well that Maj. Shawn Haney (ret.) came on CNN to shut down the notion that Vance did nothing in Iraq. Haney, a public affairs officer, also corrected Keilar, noting the dangers of being a combat correspondent, citing 130 individuals who did not make it home.
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When I was first in Vietnam I was assigned to the Marine Corps Communication Center which was in an underground concrete reinforced bunker in Dong Ha.  But I only spent 12 hours a day in it.  When I wasn't in it I was still exposed to enemy fire.  I was staying in an old French hospital near the airbase.

One day while outside the NVA hit a nearby ammo dump which exploded.  One of the pieces flying through the air was a piece of metal about the thickness and size of my hand. The sizzling chunk landed at my feet.  It would have been fatal if I had been standing a foot or so closer. 

I went on to be the executive officer of a Marine Corps company operating near the DMZ.  We were operating from Khe Sanh to the coast.  In one operation we maneuvered right next to the border of North Vietnam.  I was among a dozen or so troops who were wounded in action and medivaced.  I wound up spending several months in the Navy hospital in Bethesda, Maryland before being discharged.

When you are assigned to a war zone you are going in harm's way.