Inspector General Reviews Trump Admin's Last-Minute Decision To Relocate Space Command

[DonViejo]

Source: Huff Post/Associated Press


02/20/2021 06:55 am ET Updated 45 minutes ago

The decision to relocate from Colorado to Alabama was made one week before Donald Trump left office. It has raised questions of political retaliation.

NICHOLAS RICCARDI

DENVER (AP) — 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.huffpost.com/entry/space-command-relocation-trump-admin_n_6030f659c5b66da5dba1aaa5

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If we relocate everything we can build new buildings and use lots of cement

and reward our buddies and waste lots of taxpayer money and tell them Jupiter will pay for them all just like Mexico paid for the wall.

[Irish_Dem]

2. It makes more sense to keep it at Peterson in C-Springs.

[cstanleytech]

8. True or if they are going to move it then Fort Gordon near where I am might be a better option since

it is a major commination hub.
Mind you I hope it never moves here as I really hate the idea of that much additional traffic in this area but its still probably a better option than where Trump tried to move it to screw Colorado.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Peterson has NORAD and NorthCom.

I was thinking that if the Space Force is going to be fighting China and Russia in space,
then Peterson might make sense.

But what do I know? Nothing.

[cstanleytech]

10. Fort Gordon has the Cyber Command though so it might work just as well.

Of course I hope like hell that they do not move here but again if they move its another option.

[Irish_Dem]

12. We could argue for both locations I think. What about linking it up with Johnson Space Center?

I know that is NASA, but it has been the center of human space flight for a long time.

Of course they don't have to link headquarters with flight operations.

[cstanleytech]

13. That is yet another option and I would have no problem with moving it there either.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Of course, they could go to Area 51 at Nellis or Wright Patt hangers.

Just in case the Space Force meets up with any aliens.

[cstanleytech]

15. Well if those aliens ever invade us we know atleast 70+ million people in this country

that voted for Trump will be safe from anal probes because their heads would get in the way.

[Irish_Dem]

17. True Dat.

[LiberalLovinLug]

3. Every decision Republicans make is some kind of political favor or retaliation

When it comes to awarding a State or county some big project.

I just can't see them NOT first huddling and deciding how it will benefit them either politically, or financially, or both.

[Grins]

21. We should return the favor...

...and move some military to other states; like, say, move the Air Force out of Texas...! They say they want to secede. Might as well get a head start!

[rawhideal]

4. Mo

It's in mo Brooks district.

[AZ8theist]

19. Yes!

Surprising Doturd didn't just let Putin annex Colorado....

[Silver1]

6. Call me picky but ...

shouldn't Space Command be in a state where people believe in science and evolution and stuff like that?

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

7. "questions of political retaliation" - ya think? I'm going to go with a yes nt

[Mawspam2]

11. Here's a thought...

...shut it down. It was stupid from the start, is filled with Trumpkins, is unnecessary and a duplication of resources.

[Dave Starsky]

16. How about if we relocate the whole idea to the office garbage can?

This whole thing was like something two stoned teenagers came up with in the back of a van.

There were already agencies doing this kind of thing. This just adds yet another layer of useless, expensive bureaucracy.

[electric_blue68]

18. May be a dumb question... should we drop this all together?

[AZ8theist]

20. If it were me...

I would get rid of "Space Force" altogether since it has a traitors fingerprints on it.

Absorb the command back into the Air Force where it was. "Space Force" sounds so childish, anyway.

And keep our most important military installations in blue states, where they know how to supply services correctly.