Vice President Mike Pence will be making a Veterans Day stop at Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, as he embarks on a diplomatic trip to Asia.

According to an itinerary released by the White House, Pence’s week-long trip will take him to Japan, Singapore, Australia and Papua New Guinea for a variety of face-to-face meetings. Pence, accompanied by National Security Advisor John Bolton, will “represent [President Trump] at the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit in Singapore as well as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Papua New Guinea.”

Air Force Lt. Col. John Ross, a spokesman for JBER’s 673d Air Base Wing, said that Pence was expected to arrive sometime Sunday afternoon. The vice president was slated to give a speech while his plane was being refueled, without leaving the base.

“He’s going to visit with service members here so it’ll be soldiers and airmen; he’ll be shaking hands,” Ross said. “JBER has a whole bunch of units on it, so we’ve tried to spread out the invitations.”

The vice president also spoke at JBER in March while he was en route to South Korea with the U.S. delegation for the Winter Olympics, saying that “missile defense begins here in Alaska.”

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