Vice President JD Vance joins troops at Marine Corps Base Quantico for lunch. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in ...

Vance, 40, served in the Marines after high school and deployed to Iraq. “I was in the Marine Corps. I said, ‘Semper Fi, Col. Vance.’ He saw my Marine Corps shirt. He asked when I served.

Vice President JD Vance tested his physical abilities at California's Camp Pendleton recently when he went hiking with Marines from the base’s Headquarters and Support Battalion.

Though JD held onto his adoptive father's last name past high school as he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps (as James David Hamel) and began publishing articles in college (as J.D. Hamel), he ...