WASHINGTON DC – Less than a week after President Donald Trump suddenly announced that Alaska would be the venue for his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, a mad scramble is under way to prepare both the site and the agenda for the most important superpower meeting in decades .

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will serve as the backdrop for Trump to welcome the Kremlin leader to American soil for the first time in a decade. The base sits on 85,000 acres of land that were included in the US purchase of Alaska from the Russians in 1867, and today houses more than 5,000 active military and civilian personnel.

In deciding to host the summit on US soil, the Trump administration rejected other possible locations including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

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