Trump expected to move Space Command from CO to AL

[Tanuki]

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/12/trump-will-overturn-biden-decision-and-locate-us-space-command-alabama-house-chairman-says.html

"President-elect Donald Trump is likely to overturn a decision to permanently place U.S. Space Command in Colorado and move it to Alabama -- where Trump originally wanted it -- during his first week in office, the House Armed Services Committee chairman said Monday.

On July 31, 2023, President Joe Biden's administration announced that Space Command would keep its headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado -- reversing Trump's announcement in 2021, which would have moved it to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
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Trump's original decision to place Space Command -- the combatant command tasked with military operations in space that was reactivated in 2019 -- in Alabama was made in the waning days of his first term and immediately sparked backlash from Colorado lawmakers, who requested a Government Accountability Office report as well as a Department of Defense inspector general probe.
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"Colorado is the rightful home for U.S. Space Command," Bennet wrote. "Our state's space and military assets are critical to America's national security, and Colorado is the best place for our service members and their families to train, live, work and retire."
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Military.com also first reported that the issue of abortion, following the Supreme Court decision in 2022 overturning Roe v. Wade, was also a major concern among Colorado lawmakers who feared that service members' reproductive rights would be limited by moving from their state, where abortion access is unrestricted, to Alabama, where it is illegal with limited exceptions."...(more)

[Ocelot II]

1. He'll do whatever he can to punish the blue states.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. A reward for the suck-up Tommy Tuberville?

How much is this utterly unnecesary move going to cost the taxpayers?

[GreenWave]

10. My guess is Colorado correctly wanted to ban him for insurrection

[Dennis Donovan]

3. That's to reward Tuberville for his military promotion interventions. n/t

[Dem4life1234]

4. Alabama?

The school systems there leave something to desired.

Idiot.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Those who can afford it will have to put their kids in private schools.

USAF and Space Command personnel are highly educated members of the military
and will want their children to get good educations.

[D. Spaulding]

5. Space Command doing fine here in Colorado

Where it's operated quite efficiently with all the other Space missions in the area. It's a shame he gets to make that decision and uproot personnel and resources just to reward an idiot.

[moondust]

6. Must remain in the New Confederacy. n/t

[Submariner]

7. This is the payoff to Tommy Tubbyville

for aiding and abetting the enemy Russia by delaying critical strategic worldwide deployments, to slow walk any and all Ukraine arming activity until the Shitgibbon returned to office and gives his handler Putin a reach around.

[Autumn]

8. Why is it he can undo whatever a Democrat does but Democrats

can't undo what he does?