“If Gavin Newsom wants to oppose the training exercises that ensure our Armed Forces are the deadliest and most lethal fighting force in the world, then he can go right ahead,” William Martin, Vance’s communications director, told CNN. “It would come as no surprise that he would stoop so low considering his pathetic track record of failure as governor.”
Vance, who spoke in front of hundreds of marines, praised his time in the military.
“I would not be here today, I would not be the vice president of the United States, I would not be the man I am today were it not for those four years that I served in the Marine Corps,” he said.
Vance spent four years in the Marines and served a tour in Iraq in 2005.
But his remarks largely focused on politics, and in part he attacked “woke” aspects of the military.
“It is our common purpose, it is our common mission and it is the fact that every single person here bleeds Marine Corps green,” the vice president said.