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TexasTowelie

(112,134 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:26 AM Feb 2021

Inspector 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/

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marble falls

(57,079 posts)
1. Cut to the chase: we don't need no stinking "Space Force" which still sounds like a ...
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:30 AM
Feb 2021

... title for a Mike Judge production.

ZZenith

(4,121 posts)
2. Except this is the U.S. Space Command, which has existed since 1985.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 02:38 AM
Feb 2021

But yes, a “Space Force”, separate from the Air Force, is not necessary.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
3. A Space Command as a seperate branch may be necessary in the future,
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 04:33 AM
Feb 2021

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

(4,121 posts)
4. Agreed. At any rate, it makes more sense to keep it in the Springs.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 04:45 AM
Feb 2021

The altitude is much higher there and therefore they are much closer to space.

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
8. Everything was transactional with that POS.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:02 AM
Feb 2021

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

(3,406 posts)
9. I wonder what bribes it will take for the GOP to flip Joe Manchin?
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 05:11 AM
Feb 2021

A submarine base in West Virginia?

The Pentagon is the gift that keeps on giving!

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