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00:00...on this well-deserved honor. Thank you.
00:12Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce the 50th Vice President of the United States, the Honorable J.D. Vance.
00:30Well, it is great to be with you here on this incredible day, and I've got to say, it's a pretty cool trick where when people say good morning, you guys say it back in unison.
00:43So let me say good morning to the class of 2025.
00:47Good morning, sir.
00:50I want to say, first of all, thank you all for having me, and thank you especially to Vice Admiral Davids and Captain Allman for your hospitality.
01:00Thank you, as well, of course, to Secretary Phelan for that great speech, Admiral Kilby, and General Smith for all that you do for our country.
01:09First off, I want to say, both from me and from President Trump, congratulations to the class of 2025.
01:16I want to say congratulations, not just to you all, because you all certainly earned a great honor, but congratulations to the families, the friends, the faculty, plus the other midshipmen and service members who join us on this beautiful morning and share in this incredible day.
01:43Now, it's always dangerous to give a politician a microphone, but I know that I am one of the very last things standing between you and your commission and your diploma.
02:02And so, out of respect, I just want you to know that this is only going to be a three and a half or four hour speech.
02:08I hope you all brought your sunscreen, because it's bright out here.
02:14But today is such an incredible day for you.
02:17Tonight, you'll celebrate in the finest tradition of the United States Naval Academy with great food and, of course, maybe a little drink.
02:25But I hope that as you celebrate, you remember that this is not just your day, as hard as you have worked for it.
02:39This day belongs to parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, brothers, sisters, and so many others.
02:47You, all of you, are the product of an incredible legacy, people who worked hard to give you a good education, food on the table, and a sense of possibility.
02:59People who took you to church, to practices, to tutoring sessions.
03:04People who prayed for you when you struggled and celebrated with you at moments just like today.
03:09Most of you are fortunate enough to have someone here to celebrate with you.
03:15Some of you don't.
03:18But whether they are here with you or not, the very best piece of advice I can give you is to begin your life in the fleet with a spirit of gratitude.
03:28Be thankful for all the people gathered here today and those who aren't, because they made you who you are, and they got you to where you are today.
03:36And I hope you'll take from that gratitude a sense of duty.
03:49You owe it to the American people, to yourselves, but most of all to the people who sacrificed so hard to get you here.
03:58You owe it to them to do the best job you can, and I know that is exactly what you're going to do.
04:03Now, it's customary in speeches like this for people like me to offer words of congratulations and maybe a little bit of advice.
04:13Of course, I just did exactly that.
04:16But you're not just graduates of some random university about to embark on careers in the private sector,
04:22and I'm not just giving another political speech.
04:25I'm your vice president, and the minute you walk off this stage with your diploma and your commission,
04:32you will be officers in the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, and that is an incredible thing.
04:38You will be leaders of men and women in our armed forces.
04:54So while President Trump and I congratulate you on this incredible achievement,
04:59I also thought it would be appropriate to tell you a bit about how the president and I think of your mission in this new and very dangerous era for our country.
05:10Now, last week, the president took a very historic trip to the Middle East,
05:14meeting with heads of state in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
05:20Most of the headlines focused on the trillions of dollars of new investment the president secured for our country,
05:26and that's, of course, an important thing.
05:29But I actually think the most significant part of that trip is that it signified the end of a decades-long approach in foreign policy
05:40that I think was a break from the precedent set by our founding fathers.
05:45We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances
05:53for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries' affairs,
05:58even when those foreign countries had very little to do with core American interests.
06:04What we're seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy
06:08with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do.
06:14Now, following the collapse of the Soviet Union,
06:18our policymakers assumed that American primacy on the world stage was guaranteed.
06:25For a brief time, we were a superpower without any peer,
06:30nor did we believe any foreign nation could possibly rise to compete with the United States of America.
06:37And so our leaders traded hard power for soft power.
06:42We stopped making things, everything from cars to computers to the weapons of war,
06:48like the ships that guard our waters and the weapons that you will use in the future.
06:54Why do we do that?
06:56Well, too many of us believed that economic integration would naturally lead to peace
07:01by making countries like the People's Republic of China more like the United States.
07:06Over time, we were told the world would converge toward a uniform set
07:12of bland, secular, universal ideals, regardless of culture or country.
07:18And those that didn't want to converge, well,
07:20our policymakers would make it their goal to force them by any means necessary.
07:25So instead of devoting our energies to responding to the rise of near-peer competitors like China,
07:33our leaders pursued what they assumed would be easy jobs for the world's preeminent superpower.
07:39How hard could it be to build a few democracies in the Middle East?
07:45Well, almost impossibly hard, it turns out, and unbelievably costly.
07:50And it wasn't our politicians who bore the consequences of such a profound miscalculation.
07:58It was the American people, to the tune of trillions of dollars, but more than anyone,
08:04it was born by the people who were in your shoes just a few short years ago,
08:10by our service members and their families.
08:12The tens of thousands of warfighters who sacrificed precious time, energy,
08:19and in some cases, their very lives in the line of duty.
08:23They are the ones who bore the costs of past failure.
08:26Our leaders abandoned clearly stated strategic goals for lofty, often incoherent abstractions.
08:33This is how, for example, we wound up chasing a $230 million pier in Gaza that worked for a grand total of 20 days
08:43while injuring over 60 American service members in the construction and maintenance of that pier.
08:50Our government took its eye off the ball of great power competition and preparing to take on a pier adversary.
08:57And instead, we devoted ourselves to sprawling, amorphous tasks like searching for new terrorists to take out
09:06while building up faraway regimes.
09:09Now, I want to be clear.
09:12The Trump administration has reversed course.
09:15No more undefined missions.
09:18No more open-ended conflicts.
09:20We're returning to a strategy grounded in realism
09:25and protecting our core national interests.
09:30Now, this doesn't mean that we ignore threats,
09:32but it means that we approach them with discipline
09:35and that when we send you to war, we do it with a very specific set of goals in mind.
09:42And consider how this played out in just the last major conflict we engaged in
09:47with the Houthis over in the Middle East.
09:50We went in with a clear diplomatic goal,
09:53not to enmesh our service members in a prolonged conflict with a non-state actor,
09:59but to secure American freedom of navigation
10:03by forcing the Houthis to stop attacking American ships.
10:08And that's exactly what we did.
10:09We pursued that goal through overwhelming force against Houthis military targets.
10:23In just the first 100 days of the administration,
10:26we were able to reach a ceasefire and a conflict
10:30that had been ongoing for nearly two years.
10:33That's how military power should be used,
10:38decisively with a clear objective.
10:41We ought to be cautious in deciding to throw a punch,
10:44but when we throw a punch, we throw a punch hard,
10:47and we do it decisively, and that's exactly what we may ask you to do.
10:51Now that shift in thinking from ideological crusades to a principled foreign policy
11:05will help restore the credibility of American deterrence in 2025 and beyond.
11:11With the Trump administration, our adversaries now know
11:16when the United States sets a red line, it will be enforced.
11:20And when we engage, we do so with purpose,
11:24with superior force, with superior weapons,
11:27and with the best people anywhere in the world.
11:29Let me say something about weapons and the future of warfare.
11:41It is, of course, a priority of this administration,
11:44not just to keep, but to widen the technological edge
11:48between the United States military and our adversaries all over the world.
11:53In the wake of the Cold War,
11:55America enjoyed a mostly unchallenged command
11:58of the commons, airspace, sea, space, and cyberspace.
12:04But the era of uncontested U.S. dominance is over.
12:10Today, we face serious threats,
12:12and China, Russia, and other nations
12:15determined to beat us in every single domain.
12:18From spectrum, to low Earth orbit,
12:21to our supply chains,
12:23and even our communication infrastructure.
12:26Technology has lowered the cost of disruption,
12:30and so we must be, all of us,
12:33not just smarter.
12:35We've got to make sure that we send our troops to war.
12:40We do it with the right tools.
12:42We can no longer assume our engagements will come without cost.
12:51That's why the Trump administration is investing in innovation,
12:55rewarding risk-takers at the Department of Defense,
12:59and streamlining weapons acquisition for the new century.
13:04Investing in cutting-edge weaponry like hypersonics is important,
13:08but just as important are the low-cost, high-impact technologies
13:13that are already transforming the battlefield.
13:16Things like drones.
13:18And by the way, when we talk about innovation,
13:21innovation is not just happening in the laboratory of a defense contractor.
13:26Innovation increasingly is happening on the very battlefields
13:30that you will lead troops on.
13:32So you are not just recipients of innovation.
13:35You're not just users of tools.
13:37You will very often be developing tools in this new century.
13:41Our lawmakers and military brass alike must learn to adjust to a world
13:47where cheap drones, readily available cruise missiles,
13:52and cyberattacks cause extraordinary damage
13:54to our military assets and our service members.
13:58And it will be you, the graduates gathered here today,
14:02who will lead the way for the rest of us.
14:05Your service will bring new challenges and environments,
14:10including ones unfamiliar even to those who have served before you.
14:15You will deploy new equipment, new systems, and new technology.
14:21And through those experiences, it is you who will learn,
14:26who will teach others, and will help our services
14:30and our entire country adapt to the future we're confronting.
14:35Now, the extraordinary education you have received
14:38is an investment by the American people,
14:41an investment not only in your courage,
14:44but in the strength of your minds
14:46and the promise of your leadership.
14:48Because your nation rests easier knowing that we have
14:53the most brilliant strategists and tacticians standing guard,
14:59men and women like you, brilliant enough to preempt
15:02and if called fight and win the wars of tomorrow.
15:06And as technological change continues to transform the battlefield,
15:12it only heightens the importance for this administration,
15:15for our whole country,
15:17on investing in our military's human capital.
15:21That's you,
15:22and the well-being of our warfighters
15:24and your brilliance and your strategic innovation.
15:29Modernization isn't just about tactics and tools.
15:33It's about meeting the needs of our service members.
15:37For too long,
15:38we asked too much of too few.
15:44Past leaders
15:45sent our service members
15:46on mission after mission
15:48with no exit strategy,
15:50no end-to-end sight,
15:52and with little articulation
15:54for the American people
15:55or for the warfighters
15:56about what we were doing.
15:59When we extend the deployment of an aircraft carrier,
16:01that has real impact
16:03on people's lives
16:04and we're aware of it.
16:06They miss their families.
16:07Of course,
16:07they miss their loved ones
16:08and their home life.
16:10They accept that sacrifice
16:11and that's the job that you've taken on.
16:14But the job that we have taken on
16:15is to never misuse that sacrifice
16:17or never ask you to do something
16:19without a clear mission
16:20and a clear path home.
16:22The Trump administration recognizes
16:33that our most valuable resources,
16:36it's you,
16:38it's young people
16:39who are brave enough
16:41to put on the uniform
16:42and risk your life for this country.
16:45And we promise,
16:47I promise,
16:48to cultivate that resource,
16:50to protect it,
16:51and to use it
16:52only when the national interest demands.
16:55And what makes your new life so unique
16:58is that you must take multiple perspectives.
17:02You will be junior officers, of course,
17:05answerable to commanders, captains,
17:07admirals, generals,
17:09and people like me.
17:10You will have to follow orders,
17:12even when you don't want to.
17:16And if I can offer one piece of advice
17:17from a junior enlisted guy
17:19to a bunch of new officers,
17:21to say that when you say,
17:24with all due respect,
17:26that is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
17:30I got chewed,
17:31these guys are laughing back here.
17:33I got chewed out more times
17:35than I can remember
17:36because I assumed
17:36that I could say
17:37whatever I wanted to
17:38so long as I said,
17:39with all due respect before it.
17:41That's not how it works out.
17:42You learn that the hard way.
17:45But importantly,
17:46you are not just following orders.
17:49More often than not,
17:50you will be giving them.
17:52And just as I see you
17:54as our most precious resource,
17:57so you must see
17:58the men and women
18:01who call you sir and ma'am
18:03as your most sacred charge.
18:06You will not just be
18:08another boss.
18:09You will counsel them
18:20through triumph and tragedy.
18:23You will learn
18:24that there is no clear line
18:26between personal
18:27and professional
18:28for officers
18:29in the Navy and Marine Corps.
18:31But I encourage you
18:33to see them
18:34not just as people
18:35who must follow your orders,
18:36but as leaders
18:38in their own right
18:39with incredible wisdom
18:40and incredible potential.
18:43Now, this is shocking
18:44to think about,
18:46but there are senior enlisted people
18:48who started their careers
18:51in the Navy
18:52or the Marine Corps
18:53before you were born
18:55who will call you sir and ma'am
18:57and follow your orders.
18:59Think about what an incredible honor that is.
19:02And think about what an incredible opportunity it is
19:05not just to lead these men and women,
19:07but also to learn from these men and women.
19:10And that is the task before you.
19:20You will lean on that experience, of course,
19:22but still, you're very often,
19:25more often than not,
19:26you're going to be the one in charge.
19:27That is an honor,
19:29but it's a responsibility
19:31that ought to give you chills.
19:33You've made it now
19:35through one of the most demanding institutions
19:37in the entire world.
19:39You've earned your commissions,
19:41and you've stepped forward
19:43to serve at a moment
19:44when your country needs you
19:46now more than ever.
19:48But you're stepping into gigantic shoes,
19:52and it's worth taking stock of that
19:54as you prepare to receive your commission.
19:58Those of us who've served
19:59know that graduates of the Naval Academy,
20:02they have a certain energy,
20:03a certain aura,
20:05a certain respect
20:05when they're out there in the fleet.
20:08Let me just give you an example.
20:11Today is your day, of course,
20:13and you should celebrate.
20:15But in three days,
20:17the president and I will lead
20:18the most solemn occasion in our nation,
20:21Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery.
20:24You'll learn, as I have,
20:26that when people say things like
20:28happy Memorial Day,
20:30you appreciate the sentiment behind it,
20:33but you know that it's wrong.
20:35Because Memorial Day
20:36is not a happy day.
20:39And Memorial Day
20:40is not for those
20:41who served and came home.
20:43It is for those
20:44who served and didn't.
20:46Every Memorial Day,
20:48I think about a graduate
20:49of this institution,
20:51Major Megan McClung.
20:52She was an officer
20:53I served with.
20:55She was bright, tough,
20:57and incredibly dedicated
20:58to her job.
21:00She arrived in Iraq
21:01not long after me
21:02and was killed in action
21:04not long after that.
21:07She loved this institution.
21:09And like so many
21:10that came before her,
21:12she built on its legacy
21:13and the way
21:14that she served her country.
21:17Now, there are so many stories
21:18of great service
21:19in this institution.
21:20I look at these signs
21:22on this stadium.
21:24Bella Wood,
21:26Midway, Guadalcanal.
21:27These are battles
21:28I read about in history books
21:30or learned about
21:31when I was a United States Marine.
21:33If you just try to read
21:34a list of the people
21:36who served
21:37after graduating
21:39from this institution,
21:40the list is almost so long
21:42you can't get through it.
21:44Senior leaders,
21:45Commandants of the Marine Corps,
21:48Chiefs of Naval Operations,
21:50Astronauts,
21:51great business leaders,
21:52and even a few lowly politicians
21:55have graduated
21:56from the United States Naval Academy.
21:59Their service
22:00is an incredible legacy
22:02that they have passed on to you.
22:05And you are the bridge
22:07that connects
22:08the incredible heritage
22:11of this institution
22:12to the future duties
22:14and responsibilities
22:15your country needs you
22:17to perform.
22:19That's an incredible honor,
22:21but it's also
22:22an incredible responsibility.
22:24And I hope you take it seriously.
22:27People will look at you
22:28as graduates
22:28of the Naval Academy
22:30in a different way
22:31than they look
22:32at most of the people
22:33that you will meet
22:34every single day.
22:35They will look at you that way,
22:37yes, because you've worked hard,
22:39and yes, because you deserve this day,
22:40but they will also
22:41look at you differently
22:42because you stand
22:44on the shoulders of giants.
22:46And 20, 30, or 40 years from now,
22:49there are giants who are,
22:51there are people
22:51who are going to be standing
22:52on your shoulders.
22:54So please remember that.
22:56Please take it seriously.
22:58And please recognize
22:59that you become part
23:01of a brotherhood
23:02and sisterhood
23:03that will enable you
23:04to do great things,
23:05that will support you
23:06as you do them,
23:07but will ask you
23:08to give back
23:09as you should
23:10in return.
23:14You are the inheritors
23:15of a national tradition
23:17dating back 250 years.
23:22It began
23:22with John Paul Jones
23:25and the founders
23:26of this country
23:28asked the United States Navy
23:30to take on
23:31the most powerful Navy
23:32on Earth,
23:33and we won.
23:34Our first patriots
23:37knew the stakes.
23:39They did not seek out war.
23:41They did everything
23:41they could to advocate
23:42and petition
23:43for their own liberties.
23:45But when the time came,
23:47they raised the military,
23:48they raised the Navy,
23:50and they fought like hell.
23:52Their examples
23:53lives on in all of you.
23:56In their courage,
23:56we see the roots
23:57of your calling
23:58to be strong
23:59but not reckless,
24:00to seek peace
24:01but never
24:02at the expense
24:03of liberty,
24:04to hold firm
24:05to your convictions
24:06even when
24:07the cost is high.
24:10I want to say
24:11to all of you,
24:12I have been vice president
24:13for all of about
24:14120 days,
24:16and this summer
24:17I will celebrate
24:18my 41st birthday.
24:20But I have never
24:21in those 41 years
24:23been so proud
24:25as I am today
24:27to honor you,
24:29to celebrate you,
24:31and to congratulate you
24:33on a job well done.
24:46Now I'm sure
24:46some of you
24:47share my politics
24:48and some of you don't.
24:50But I know
24:51today
24:51I speak
24:52for a grateful nation
24:54when I say
24:55we are rooting for you,
24:57Naval Academy
24:58Class of 25,
24:59we are proud of you
25:01and we depend on you.
25:03Congratulations,
25:04Godspeed,
25:05and do great work.
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