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If you have watched FOX News over the last decade, you are familiar with Johnny Joey Jones. He is a contributor who has appeared on multiple panels and programs, and sometimes is called in to host specials that have to do with the U.S. Military.
Jones lost both of his legs while serving as a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan. It’s easy to forget this because despite having two prosthetic legs, Jones can walk perfectly and rarely talks about his injuries.
He just reenlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. Talk about a genuine American hero.
From FOX News:
Fox News’ Johnny ‘Joey’ Jones reenlists in United States Marine Corps
Fox News host Johnny “Joey” Jones reenlisted in the United States Marine Corps on Wednesday during a swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon.
“The last job I had in uniform — my job was to get better. It was to heal. It’s a very selfish thing. My job was to heal. The Marine Corps paid me to get better, and then I retired. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it was unfinished business,” Jones said at the ceremony.
Jones, a formerly-retired staff sergeant, served eight years in the Marine Corps and was deployed twice, suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. The 2010 IED-related incident resulted in the loss of both of his legs and severe damage to his right forearm and both wrists.
“If there’s an opportunity for me to serve, there’s no reason why a no-legged 40-year-old staff sergeant should be able to put the uniform on, other than these men believed it. And the goal here is to open that door for anyone else that has something left to give,” Jones told his military colleagues in the room.
Jones was joined by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who led the swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes.
See the video below:
AWESOME! SecWar Pete Hegseth just REENLISTED Joey Jones to the Marine Corps
JONES: “I’m doing it because I have a debt left to give… It means the world to me to be here to finish the story that I started writing twenty-one years ago.”
PATRIOT. pic.twitter.com/Z05OtUMhou
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 20, 2026
Young progressives who support people like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani think this country owes them something. It doesn’t.
This country owes men like Johnny Joey Jones, and what is he doing? He’s reenlisting in the armed forces. Just amazing.
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