President Biden on Thursday thanked service members for their “strength” and “integrity” while giving his farewell address in Virginia.
“There’s never been a time in history when we’ve asked our military to do so many different things so many places, all at the same time,” the president said at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia. “And I want to be clear: You have done all these missions with strength and, maybe even importantly, integrity.”
Biden’s address to troops came the morning after his farewell address to the nation in which he said it was his “great honor” to serve as the 46th president.
It also comes four days before President-elect Trump succeeds him.
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President Biden on Thursday thanked service members for their “strength” and “integrity” while giving his farewell address at the Department of Defense. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“You all represent what America is: character, honesty, integrity, commitment,” Biden told the troops. “You are simply the greatest fighting force in the history of the world.”
The president said the troops “rose to the occasion” when he asked for the war in Afghanistan to end, “evacuating Americans, allies and our Afghan partners, accomplishing the largest airlift in military history and ending a war. The same courage is defined by American service in Afghanistan for over 20 years.”
He said he believes “history will reflect that was the right thing to do, but I know, I know, it was hard after decades of losing your brothers…
