(13 Aug 2025)
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RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire – 13 August 2025
1. Various of US Vice President JD Vance arriving on stage, UPSOUND cheering
2. SOUNDBITE (English) JD Vance, US Vice President:
"This is a pretty fine duty station if I do say so myself. This is a beautiful country. I just spent the past few days here actually, some meetings, some downtime with the family. We’ve had a very good time here in England. The United Kingdom, of course, is one of our great allies, so I think I speak for all the pathfinders here (UPSOUND: cheering) Is that right? And what about all of the red dragon folks as well (UPSOUND: cheering). Well I say that we are proud of the special relationship and we are proud to work together with our British friends right here at Fairford Base. God bless you all."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) JD Vance, US Vice President:
"Every time something big happens to the world, every time a great victory is won for freedom and for peace and for prosperity, it is almost always the Brits and the Americans do it together and we win every single time we go to war together."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) JD Vance, US Vice President:
"I started a week in a place called Chevening with the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, further south in the country in a county called Kent, and what we did is we worked on one of our most important shared security goals in Europe, which is the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine. One of our most important shared security goals in Europe, which is the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The president of the United States came in 6 months ago and I just talked to him right before I came on the stage, and he said very simply that we are going to make it our mission as an administration to bring peace to Europe once again. But as you all know, it is impossible to bring peace anywhere unless the bad guys are also worried that we’ve got a hell of a fine air force and a hell of a fine military to back up the peace to begin with."
++BLACK FRAMES++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) JD Vance, US Vice President:
"And that fact. The fact that people are impressed by you, the fact that so many people are frankly afraid of you is why we’re able to do what we do as an administration."
++BLACK FRAMES++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) JD Vance, US Vice President:
"God bless you all. Thank you for having the Vice President here in the UK."
7. Vance walks of stage ++CONTINUES FROM SOUNDBITE++
8 . Various of JD Vance meeting troops
9. Various of troops
STORYLINE:
US Vice President JD Vance spoke during a visit to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire in the UK on Wednesday.
RAF Fairford is home to troops from the United States Air Force’s 501st Combat Support Wing and the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron.
"The president of the United States came in 6 months ago and I just talked to him right before I came on the stage, and he said very simply that we are going to make it our mission as an administration to bring peace to Europe once again," said Vance.
Vance and his family have been on holiday in the Cotswolds, an area that has become popular with wealthy American tourists because of its quaint villages, stone cottages and rural countryside that hark back to old England.
AP video by Henry Wilkins
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