JD Vance sought last week to use a military helicopter to ferry himself and his son across Washington for a golf lesson, one of a number of allegedly unusual travel requests that has left the Republican’s security detail “fed up,” MS Now reports.
The alleged travel plans aboard Marine Two were ultimately canceled due to weather, but Secret Service agents nonetheless discussed it among themselves unhappily, according to the outlet.
Past vice presidents have had Secret Service agents drive their children to activities, rather than use military hardware, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour to operate.
Not to defend vance, fuck him, but a motorcade would indeed be disruptive to regular traffic. Or don’t vice presidents travel in convoys?
a military helicopter ride is around 27k-30k per RIDE, its much more wasteful.
Not debating that, seems plainly true to me.
Yeah, I always hated when a motorcade made my commute even worse (I live in the DC area and commuted near Andrews AFB, so it did happen now and then - I usually ran into them on the Suitland Parkway).