Melania Trump and Usha Vance took their first trip together, spending time in North Carolina on Wednesday with service members and their families to show appreciation for their service and sacrifice as the holidays approach.

The wives of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a former Marine, visited with military personnel, their children, and relatives at Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast, and Marine Corps Air Station New River.

“Thank you for your service. My husband, the president, is sending best regards. We are both thinking of you,” Trump told students at Lejeune High School, where 10 marines stationed out front had saluted as their motorcade arrived.

The first lady added that she and the president always think of U.S. service members but

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