Daniel Penny Will Attend Army-Navy Game With JD Vance
A jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely.
Vice President-elect JD Vance announced that Daniel Penny will attend the Army-Navy game with him on Saturday.
Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone.
I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage. https://t.co/b4bY0G0EM3
— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 13, 2024
A jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely.
The court threw out manslaughter, the significant charge against Penny, when the jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict.
However, it took them no time to reach a not guilty verdict on the second count.
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I’ll be there too, we’ve gone every year for almost 20 years since I graduated Annapolis, except for the years I was out of country.
We are so back.
GO ARMY, SINK NAVY!
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I hope that t find a decent job for Penny in the new administration. Maybe he can be one of the downsizing and rooting out bad players hatchet men, for which we will need may people.
At least half of our bloated government should be cut.
I want to see the Marine Corps / Air Force game.
Hah!
No helmets, no pads, no rules.
With Air Force? You have to be kidding.
No. You really don’t.
As a sports official, I was the white hat in an annual flag football tournament at an Air Force Base. The other services were on the base for training.
The Marines v. Army game and the Marines v. Air Force game were particularly brutal. Men were deliberately trying to hurt other players. Punches were thrown, fights were started because of illegal contact, vulgar trash talking, etc.
For the final, every off duty SP was called in to supplement the SP’s assigned to the game.
The SP’s arrested or detained 15 -20 of the players and another 25 or so in the stands.
Our crew was asked to meet the the Colonel in charge of the base. He asked why we had thrown so many flags, ejected so many people and why we had lost control of the game.
We had filmed the game and made a 2 minute tape of the lowlights.
He watched it, then asked “why didn’t you throw more people out and why weren’t the SP’s more proactive?”
They cancelled the tournament the next year.
I have never witnessed such childish, immature, wrongful conduct on a field as that day. (And I have been involved in brawls on courts and fields where the game was stopped.)
The only thing possibly worse were some contests at the “National Law Enforcement Games.”
They were close, but nothing like the games on the base.
I have a family of Marines. Uncle (Jan ’42 to Iwo Jima) , brother-in-law, one son, one grandson due for Captain soon. All very good men. Kind, gentle, I am proud of each and every one. Every single one proud to have been a Marine. Proud of the “once a Marine, always a Marine.”
I have no doubt that your story is true. Marines are selected for and taught aggression. War isn’t a game.
Similar background here. Had an uncle who was a Marine aviator late WWII and Korea. He caused my interest in the Corps.
I was a rifleman then into security and caught the last couple of years of Vietnam. My son was a mortarman in the sandbox, and his son is nosing around the idea of joining the Corps right now. If Trump is successful in ripping the DEI bull out of the Corps both his dad and I will strongly suggest he do so, but as an officer.
It’s obvious that the guitar man hasn’t attended a Marine Corps Ball. Now that is serious combat!
The odd thing is that the “training” the Army and the Marines were on base for was nothing but classroom training.
The Air Force guys had already taken it, but as it was an Air Force Base, they were trying to protect their “home turf.”
The games surprised us because of the lack of sportsmanship and the lack of respect for the other teams, the lack of respect for officers, the lack of respect for spectators and the lack of respect for the officials.
As officials, we can appreciate the “roughness” in a game. Cheap shots are a totally different thing.
We had several “walking orders.”
One was to be fair. One was to expect the aggressiveness. One was to try and keep the game “civil.” (No vulgar trash talking, threats, etc.)
The other one – and arguably the main one – was to make sure these guys were able to go to work the next day.
It was memorable. That’s for sure.
As an old paratrooper we often had joint exercises on Marine bases as our missions overlapped to a degree. It never came to blows but it was very tense at times. Interservice rivalry and nothing personal
What about the Merchant Marine Academy?
Daniel, have a grand time!!!
The Coast Guard Academy rules! The only school that recruited me out of HS for football. I didn’t go but I often wonder how different my life would have been if I did.
I have never met Daniel Penny and know only what is in the media. I assume everything in the media is either wrong or incomplete until proven otherwise. The errors and admissions are, curiously, always supportive of the media’s biased position.
Google “Gell-Mann” amnesia.
Having said that, if I had a position (I don’t, I am mostly retired), I would want to talk to him. He took charge when he didn’t have to, on behalf of people he didn’t know, had nothing to gain.
We need more Daniel Penny’s.
Good on J. D. Vance.
omissions. An Edit feature for Christmas?
A Marine helping a fellow Marine!
Semper Fi!