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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE

Vice President Mike Pence is set to speak to more than 200 airmen and their families in front of a C-17 transport jet in a 445th Airlift Wing hangar at Wright-Patterson today on U.S. Armed Forces Day.

Airmen were beginning to file in for the vice presidents address hours before he took the podium.

Wright-Patterson is a premier Air Force Base, premier military installation so I think with the heritage of the Air Force and everything that this base in Dayton in particular has meant to the history of the U.S. Air Force I dont think theres any better place for him to be, said Capt. Alex Bilchak, 38, New Albany, Ohio, and a member of the 445th Airlift Wings aeromedical evacuation squadron.sid ent

Staff Sgt. Chelsea Eldridge, 29, a reserve airmen with the 445th Airlift Wing, considered it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

My supervisor asked me if I wanted to do this opportunity I said yes most definitely, she said.

Pence scheduled stop at Wright-Patterson in a hangar in the 445th Airlift Wing Pence was the second visit on a three-state tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio and his home state of Indiana over the weekend.

He was scheduled to speak at the commencement of Grove City College earlier in the day in Pennsylvania.

On Sunday, the former Indiana governor was the expected to return to his home state to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Day in South Bend.

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