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Had a great time hiking with the Marines at Camp Pendleton over the weekend! Semper Fi 🇺🇸
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1944781402001576108
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#Marines with Headquarters and Support Battalion, @MCIWPendletonCA, hiked with the @VP of the United States, the Honorable JD Vance, at MCB Camp Pendleton, California, July 11, 2025.
Vance, who served in the Marines from 2003-2007, led the hike to reinforce the values of camaraderie and unit cohesion. A fundamental element in Marine training, hiking builds both physical endurance and mental resilience in preparation for future battles.
https://x.com/USMC/status/1944762522998833478
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https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1944799112840278182
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Pentagon pulls all military speakers from ‘globalist’ Aspen Security Forum
A dozen top U.S. military commanders and officials was slated to participate in the Aspen Security Forum this week.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/pentagon-pulls-all-military-speakers-globalist-aspen-security-forum
The Pentagon has pulled roughly a dozen high-ranking U.S. military officials who had been slated to participate in this week’s annual Aspen Security Forum, Just the News has learned.
The Defense Department cited the left-wing nature of the Aspen Institute and the participation of such critics of President Trump as Biden administration National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
The annual forum put on by the Aspen Institute – which has been dubbed “the mountain retreat for the liberal elite” – describes the event as “the premier national security and foreign policy conference in the United States.”
Roughly a dozen top Defense Department officials – including the secretary of the Navy and the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command – are still listed as speakers on the Aspen Security Forum agenda this week, but a source told Just the News over the weekend that that will no longer happen.
“The Department of Defense has no interest in legitimizing an organization that has invited former officials who have been the architects of chaos abroad and failure at home,” Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Just the News.
"They are antithetical to the America First values of this administration. Senior representatives of the Department of Defense will no longer be participating in an event that promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the President of the United States," Wilson also said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit this weekend that his agency under Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden was "distracted by experiments" in left-wing ideology and that "from day one, we have declared that [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives are] dead at DoD," calling it a "back-to-basics moment."
The Institute receives funding from left-leaning donors, stacks its commissions with anti-Trump activists, and has been linked to a series of events which Republicans say contributed to the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop stories in October 2020, critics say.