First lady Jill Biden to visit Camp Lejeune on Wednesday

First lady Jill Biden will visit the Marine Corps Base at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville on Wednesday afternoon.

Biden will be on base to meet with military and veteran family members. She will hold private meetings and engage in a listening session.

The first lady will be accompanied by Mrs. Donna Berger, spouse of the Commandant of the Marine Corps General David H. Berger and Mrs. Stacie Black, spouse of the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Troy E. Black.

The meetings and listening session are closed to the media. The first lady's visit comes on the heels of 13 service members dying in a terrorist attack in Kabul, including a Marine based out of Camp Lejeune.

Biden will appear as a special guest and deliver a pre-recorded message for the National Parent Teacher Association's "Back to Class" virtual town hall at 1 p.m. before traveling to Jacksonville.

“There’s nothing low grade or low risk or low cost about any war,” said president Joe Biden on Tuesday, addressing the nation less than a week after a terrorist bombing killed 13 service members at the Kabul airport during a chaotic rush to leave the country. “It’s time to end the war in Afghanistan.”

President Biden felt the costs to the United States would have been even higher if he had allowed the nation to remain mired for years in a civil war that has dragged on for decades. In blunt terms, he said the only alternative to the departure he oversaw was another escalation of the war.

The president delivered his remarks just shy of 20 years after the U.S. ousted the Taliban from power in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, and just a day after the last U.S. troops and diplomats departed the country, which is once again under Taliban rule.

President Biden said that he believed with “all of my heart” that he made a wise decision.