On Wednesday, JD Vance, the first U.S. vice president to serve as a Marine, spent the day with his brethren at Virginia’s Marine Corps Base Quantico, as my colleague Teri Christoph wrote:
Vance had apparently been delayed in an Oval Office meeting, but made his excuses to President Trump and hotfooted it down to Quantico on Marine Two. He arrived with one heck of an excuse note for his tardiness, noting the president had sent his best wishes from the White House: “We love ya, we’re proud of ya and we’re going to support you every single step of the way.”
The vice president greeted his fellow Marines with a hearty “Oorah!” — much to the delight of the crowd. He joked that, although he had never spent time at Quantico during his time of service, he was a “proud member of the E-4 mafia,” and wanted to run for vice president because “it was time for the…
