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The eagerly awaited meeting between Trump and Putin finds on the Military base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage instead of. What do you need to know about it? Elmendorf-Richardson is The largest US military base in AlaskaMore than 30,000 US soldiers are stationed there. The base acts as the headquarters for the Alaska command of the armed forces in the US state. From there, the Air Force also controls airspace in the border region between the USA and Russia. The US air weapon regularly starts Russian aircraft, which Alaska approaches and warns them electronically or visually of entry into American airspace.

The history of the base goes back to World War II: In 1940 a roller field was built on the site, and the first air weapon members were stationed there in the same year. According to information from the congress library in Washington, the base later played “an increasing role in the defense of North America when the uncertain war relationships between the United States and the Soviet Union went into the Cold War”.

The complex does not look like jewelry as the white house or the Kremlin – but that’s probably not the point.