A few months after hiking with a Marine battalion along Camp Pendleton’s steep hills, Vice President JD Vance will hit the beach at the sprawling Southern California base to welcome amphibious vehicles and aircraft doing a beach landing demonstration in honor of the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary, according to White House officials.

On Saturday, Oct. 18, Vance, who is the first Marine to serve as vice president, will join Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan and Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric M. Smith for an event dubbed: America’s Marines 250: From Sea to Shore – A Review of Amphibious Strength.

The visit comes amid a federal government shutdown that has had many military families worried about whether paychecks will continue to arriv

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