JD Vance, Marine Vice President, Fires Up Camp Pendleton for the Corps’ 250th Birthday

Camp Pendleton sounded like it was waking a giant on October 18, 2025. Rotor wash, tracks biting into Red Beach, and Marines moving with the kind of purpose that makes an audience lean forward. Into that thunder stepped Vice President JD Vance, the first Marine to hold the office, ready to mark the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) with a message that hit home for the ranks and their families packed along the shoreline.

The morning launched with an amphibious assault demonstration that reminded everyone why the Marines get called when the phone rings at three in the morning. Helicopters and Ospreys cut across the sky. Amphibious vehicles rolled out of the surf. Vance and Second La

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