WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vice President JD Vance, the first Marine Corps veteran in the White House, visited Marine Corps Base Quantico on March 26. The trip came amid continued fallout from his leaked group chat containing classified information.

Vance flew on Air Force Two into the base, where he spoke to a gathering of Marines on his time in the service and its upcoming 250th anniversary.

“Two-hundred-fifty years of winning wars, 250 years of kicking ass and taking names,” Vance said.

The visit was delayed by more than two hours, though, while top government officials scrambled to respond to new details released Wednesday morning on the now-infamous Signal group chat leak.

Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been included in a group chat on the messaging app Signal in which top national security officials were discussing plans for a forthcoming military strike on the Houthis in Yemen.

Vance was a part of the chat, as well as National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

Vance has not publicly addressed the breach. He did not mention it during his Quantico visit and did not take questions from reporters.

On Wednesday Waltz sought to minimize the security breach.

“Nobody’s texting war plans,” he told reporters.

At a House Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard admitted it was a mistake for a journalist to have been accidentally included in the group chat, but also downplayed the gravity of the leak.

“The conversation was candid and sensitive, but as the president national security advisor stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations, or war plans that were shared,” Gabbard said.

Yet backlash continues to mount.

Gabbard said the National Security Council would conduct an “in-depth” review of the leak, while both Republican and Democrat leadership of the Senate Armed Services Committee announced they would request an expedited Inspector General investigation.

American Oversight, a watchdog group that says it is non-partisan but often leans left, filed a lawsuit over the use of the messaging app Signal to discuss classified information.