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finesse said:
Colorado Springs is probably one of the more Republican areas in the state. The AFA has over the last 50 years become very attractive to Christofascists and a community has grown up around them.
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Agree. And, given the infrastructure already there, it makes a WHOLE lot more sense to keep Space Force where it is. So why the change?

AFA cadets should be feeding Space Force. That should start by no later than the second semester of their freshman year. Are we expecting them to transfer to UAH? Or Alabama A&M?
 
finesse said:
Colorado Springs is probably one of the more Republican areas in the state. The AFA has over the last 50 years become very attractive to Christofascists and a community has grown up around them.
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Oh, I’m aware.

Still, Colorado as a whole voted against Trump by wide margins in each of the last 3 elections.
 
EyeballKid said:
Oh, I’m aware.

Still, Colorado as a whole voted against Trump by wide margins in each of the last 3 elections.
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Poor Jeff Crank. The last of thousands who have been fucked in the ass by Trump, at least some of whom are over the age of consent.

gazette.com

Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama, Trump will announce

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration will announce on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado Springs, according to two people familiar with the announcement.
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"Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space Command because it has significant implications for the local economy. The site also has been a political prize, with elected officials from both Alabama and Colorado asserting their state is the better location.

"On Aug. 7, 2023, Colorado politicians basked in their Space Command victory in America the Beautiful Park after facing uneven odds against Alabama on military-related congressional committees. Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade was joined by Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Doug Lamborn, who has since retired, were at the celebration."

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Space Command to leave Colorado Springs, move to Alabama

President Trump is expected to announce plans to move the command from Colorado to Alabama, in a return to a decision he made in the final days of his first term.
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"President Donald Trump is expected to announce this afternoon that he is reviving a plan to permanently base Space Command in Huntsville, Alabama, according to the Associated Press.

"A defense media website said the event is a “U.S. Space Command HQ Announcement,” but it has since been changed to just “an announcement,” with no details.

"The command has been operating from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs since Trump revived it in 2019. It achieved full operational capacity there in late 2023.

"Colorado’s Republican congress members stressed that point in a joint letter to Trump in April, asking him not to relocate operations.

“Transfering the Command at such a turbulent time would jeopardize our national security, needlessly put American lives at risk, and create an unnecessary waste of taxpayer resources,” Reps. Jeff Crank, Lauren Boebert, Gabe Evans and Jeff Hurd wrote.

"They added that the natural security situation has changed since Trump first announced his intent to move the command to Alabama in January 2021. “Moving USSPACECOM would create a self-inflicted vulnerability at a time when foreign adversaries like the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Iran, and Russia are increasingly assertive, and when conflicts in the Middle East demand sustained vigilance.”

The plea from Colorado Republicans seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.
 
lawtig02 said:
Agree. And, given the infrastructure already there, it makes a WHOLE lot more sense to keep Space Force where it is. So why the change?

AFA cadets should be feeding Space Force. That should start by no later than the second semester of their freshman year. Are we expecting them to transfer to UAH? Or Alabama A&M?
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Very timely announcement as my son has just moved from DC to Huntsville to work for a national defense contractor company. He'd been working at the company's DC office but decided to relocate to the main headquarters. I've never been to Huntsville but it has a fairly high concentration of Phds and STEM graduates and is a growing city. Since he's in the industry, he spends a lot of time in Colorado Springs as well.

We'll see if he likes it.
 
Ramrouser said:
Very timely announcement as my son has just moved from DC to Huntsville to work for a national defense contractor company. He'd been working at the company's DC office but decided to relocate to the main headquarters. I've never been to Huntsville but it has a fairly high concentration of Phds and STEM graduates and is a growing city. Since he's in the industry, he spends a lot of time in Colorado Springs as well.

We'll see if he likes it.
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Huntsville is a great town -- because of the immense federal funding flowing into that part of Alabama. I have nothing against Huntsville. But why make this shift when Space Force is already close to its best employment base (the AFA), and that part of Colorado is already represented by a Republican? This will be a major problem for Crank.
 
In the late 50's we lived in Decatur.. Daddy had to drive to Huntsville to find an "ABC " store
 
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