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Related: About this forumInspector General Reviews Trump Relocation of Space Command
The Department of Defense's inspector general announced Friday that it was reviewing the Trump administration's last-minute decision to relocate U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama.
The decision on Jan. 13, one week before Trump left office, blindsided Colorado officials and raised questions of political retaliation. Trump had hinted at a Colorado Springs rally in 2020 that the command would stay at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
But the man with whom Trump held that rally, Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, lost his reelection bid in November, and Colorado, unlike Alabama, voted decisively against Trump. The Air Force's last-minute relocation of command headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama home of the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal blindsided Colorado officials of both parties, who have urged the Biden administration to reconsider the decision.
On Friday, the inspector general's office announced it was investigating whether the relocation complied with Air Force and Pentagon policy and was based on proper evaluations of competing locations.
Read more: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/inspector-general-reviews-trump-relocation-of-space-command/2900061/
marble falls
(62,580 posts)... title for a Mike Judge production.
ZZenith
(4,332 posts)But yes, a Space Force, separate from the Air Force, is not necessary.
sarge43
(29,169 posts)but evolve as the Air Force did. Part of an established branch, then eventually, when and if needed, become an independent branch.
Air Force's antecedents:
A division of the Army's Signal Corps
Aviation Section, Signal Corps
Army Air Service
Army Air Corps
Army Air Force
ZZenith
(4,332 posts)The altitude is much higher there and therefore they are much closer to space.
sarge43
(29,169 posts)Though were looking at decades to complete that task.
sarge43
(29,169 posts)SergeStorms
(19,364 posts)Bow down to me, adore me, I'll shower you with taxpayer's money. Don't vote for me, lose your state to Democrats, see 'ya, under the bus with you. If it was his own money (ridiculous, right?) he's still an asshole, but it's his money. Do the same thing using taxpayer's money? You're a galactic sized shithead, and should be in jail for that alone.
One of these days there will be an end to DJT's corruption, and he'll have paid the price for all of his dumbfuckery. Unfortunately that will be the day he shuffles off his adipose, orange, mortal coil. It can't come soon enough for me.
Thunderbeast
(3,559 posts)A submarine base in West Virginia?
The Pentagon is the gift that keeps on giving!