Major California Freeway Closes For Military Live-Fire Event

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A Major California freeway was shutdown on Saturday after the U.S. Marines held a live-fire event.

If you are unfamiliar with a live fire event it’s a military “exercise that uses real ammunition in a controlled, realistic combat simulation to train personnel, test equipment, or conduct a public demonstration.”

Vice President JD Vance also made a special appearance at the event and gave a speech.

CBS News provided further context about the event:

The 5 Freeway, a major artery in Southern California, had closed for a period estimated at about four hours on Saturday for a live-fire event at Camp Pendleton in northern San Diego County that was being attended by Vice President JD Vance, this despite the U.S. Marine Corps’ previous insistence that the public highway would remain open.

According to California Highway Patrol, the 5 was closed between Harbor Drive and Basilone Road beginning at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. The closure lasted until about 3 p.m.

About 80,000 drivers daily travel the route, which connects San Diego and Orange counties. Despite initial plans to shut down the entire freeway during that time, the southbound lanes were reopened by noon.

Vance, a Marine Corps veteran, spoke following the display, but did not comment on the freeway’s closure. He thanked current members for their service and celebrated the 250th anniversary of the USMC.

“We are grateful to have all of you, whatever your rank, whatever your station in the Marine Corps, here at Camp Pendleton, to commemorate this incredible 250th anniversary of our beloved Marine Corps,” Vance said. “From these mountains and this water, Marines have deployed to every major fight of the last century, from island hopping across the Pacific, to Vietnam’s Hue city, to Kuwait, to Helmand and beyond. And standing here, you can feel the weight of that history.”

He credited the Marine Corps with his path to becoming the vice president.

BREAKING

#OrangeCounty / #California

From the California Highway Patrol: Both directions of the 5 fwy, between Harbor Dr in Oceanside and Basilone Rd in Orange County will close today, from 11am to approximately 3pm. Metrolink service will also be suspended during this… pic.twitter.com/6aT2XhoyRb

— OC Scanner

(@OC_Scanner) October 18, 2025

Here’s JD Vance at the event:

BREAKING: Vice President JD VANCE is watching a US Marines demonstration right now in Camp Pendleton, California

These guys are BAD*SS! How could anyone not be proud to be an American

pic.twitter.com/QepslhbDiz

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 18, 2025

A clip of his speech:

Vice President Vance rallies Marines at @USMC Camp Pendleton:

“In the Trump Administration, we know that the work you do protecting our country, putting your lives on the line to defend our way of life, is at the heart of Marine Corps service.” pic.twitter.com/4KJW28Khny

— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) October 19, 2025

The New York Post reported more on Vance’s visit to Camp Pendleton:

Vice President Vance marked the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday, delivering a tribute to the service while promising the Trump administration would refocus the military on “discipline, readiness and faith in one another” rather than “diversity quotas.”

Speaking before hundreds of Marines and sailors from units across Southern California, the vice president drew on his own four years of service in the Corps, telling the crowd he “would not be the man I am today” without his time as a Marine.

“When officials try to shift focus to mandating diversity quotas or they try to inject partisan politics into the American armed forces, they impede the Marine Corps’s ability to do its best work,” Vance said.

“That’s why the secretary of war and the president of the United States have stood so firmly against that crap.”

Before Vance spoke, US Marines held an exercise in which they stormed the beaches at Camp Pendleton as part of a demonstration of the service branch’s military might for Vance.

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