Lee spoke with several of the servicemembers stationed there, many of whom told the senator they had been deployed to the country for about a year.

Vice President JD Vance, Sen. Mike Lee and other top U.S. officials are scheduled to arrive Friday in Greenland, where locals have expressed deep unease about the visit after President Donald Trump vowed to acquire the island “one way or the other.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources chair was part of a delegation that visited the autonomous Danish territory.