MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. -- Melania Trump and Usha Vance took their first trip together on Wednesday, visiting Marine Corps members and their relatives in North Carolina to mark the approach of Thanksgiving and salute military families, which the first lady called "the quiet strength of our nation."

The wives of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a former Marine, visited schools at Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast, before delivering remarks to some 1,600 uniformed, cheering Marines and their families at Marine Corps Air Station New River.

"Please know that our nation is thinking of you, praying for you and deeply grateful for your service," Trump said of all military service members stationed far from home during the holidays,

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