As American Family News has reported, U.S. Space Command headquarters will be relocated from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama – where President Trump wanted it when he reestablished Space Command in August 2019.
Joe Biden changed it to Colorado in 2023 for political reasons.
"The military community of Colorado Springs is disappointed … but the Air Force Space Command (Space Force) will remain in Colorado Springs with 90% of the missions," relays Gordon Klingenschmitt.
Space Command uses forces from all military branches to conduct daily military missions and operations in the space domain; the Space Force is a distinct military service that organizes, trains, and equips personnel for space missions and develops space capabilities.
The Space Force builds the team and tools, and Space Command uses them to run operations.
"They're moving a four-star general and all of his immediate staff, which is probably 10% of the budget, out of Colorado and over to Alabama," the former Air Force missile officer summarizes. "90% will remain in Colorado."
Still, Colorado's bipartisan congressional delegation is not taking the news well. Officials say the move will harm national security, and they argue it will set back space defense, waste taxpayer dollars, weaken national readiness, and disrupt the lives of military families and civilian workers.
But having previously served as a Colorado representative, Klingenschmitt considers the cost differences.
Alabama, predominately a Republican state, consistently ranks as one of the nation's least expensive states to live in. Conversely, Democrat-led Colorado's cost of living is above the national average, with various sources placing it around the top 10-15 most expensive states.
"The housing crisis created by the left-wing Democrats' bad policies in Colorado and in Colorado Springs is now necessitating an $800 per month increase over the cost of housing per person compared to Alabama," Klingenschmitt reports. "The Democrat policies in Colorado are making housing unaffordable."
He says socialism has destroyed The Centennial State.
Alabama is expected to gain hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and tens of thousands of aerospace and defense jobs from this move.
