First Lady visits Camp Pendleton

CAMP PENDLETON – First Lady Michelle Obama visited Camp Pendleton on Sunday, June 13, where she said military families are just as heroic as those in uniform.

As part of her advocacy campaign on behalf of military families, she met privately with service personnel and their loved ones at the USMC base and addressed about 1,000 Marines and their families.

“You’re heroes just as much as our men and women in uniform – the spouses who stay behind, with all the pride of being a military wife or husband, but with also the fears and the anxiety that come when the person you love the most...