{"id":2543,"date":"2025-03-10T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/jake-barber-discrepancy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:29:10","slug":"jake-barber-discrepancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/jake-barber-discrepancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Barber discrepancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jake Barber Discrepancy: Clarification Needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to give a shout-out to NickP from the Vetted Discord for catching this. During Jesse Michels&#8217; interview, Jake Barber claimed he was involved in the liberation of Kuwait, which took place in 1991. However, Jake has also stated that he enlisted in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>While there was Operation Vigilant Warrior in 1994, it seems unlikely that he could have enlisted, completed the necessary training\u2014which typically takes several years\u2014and then been deployed to Kuwait for a show of force to deter Saddam from re-invading. After mentioning his time in Kuwait, Jake stated, &#8220;I had a lot of combat time,&#8221; yet from what I&#8217;ve found, there was no combat involved in Operation Vigilant Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>Could Jake have confused the year he enlisted? That seems as puzzling as forgetting your high school graduation year. It&#8217;s especially curious considering he exhibited sharp recall throughout the rest of the interview.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to hear clarification on this from Jesse, Ross, or from Jake himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I received a response directly from Jake, thanks to @AeroTech_Space for inquiring, and others from the Vetted Discord. While I won&#8217;t link to the original post due to my feelings about Elon, Jake clarified: &#8220;Time in Kuwait was late 90&#8217;s not early 90&#8217;s &#8211; At Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait during Operation Southern Watch (1992-2003).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s promising that he&#8217;s being open and responsive, but I&#8217;m still puzzled by his specific mention of the liberation of Kuwait. Does anyone with military experience from that time have insight on why he might have phrased it that way instead of referring to &#8220;Operation Southern Watch&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nJake Barber Discrepancy: Clarification Needed I&#8217;d like to give a shout-out to NickP from the Vetted Discord for catching this. During Jesse Michels&#8217; interview, Jake Barber claimed he was involved in the liberation of Kuwait, which took place in 1991. However, Jake has also stated that he enlisted in 1994. While there was Operation Vigilant&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/jake-barber-discrepancy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Jake Barber discrepancy&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}