"President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that US Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Alabama, returning to the Pentagon's plans for the command's headquarters from the final days of Trump's first term in the White House. The headquarters will move to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Trump made the announcement in the Oval Office, flanked by Republican members of the Alabama congressional delegation."
"Space Command is separate from the Space Force, and is made up of personnel from all branches of the armed services. The Space Force, on the other hand, is charged with supplying personnel and technology for use by multiple combatant commands. The newest armed service, established in 2019 during President Trump's first term, is part of the Department of the Air Force, which also had the authority for recommending where to base Space Command's permanent headquarters."
""US Space Command stands ready to carry out the direction of the president following today's announcement of Huntsville, Alabama, as the command's permanent headquarters location," SPACECOM wrote on its official X account. Military officials in the first Trump administration considered potential sites in Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas before the Air Force recommended basing Space Command in Huntsville, Alabama, on January 13, 2021, a week before Trump left office. Members of Colorado's congressional delegation protested the decision, suggesting the recommendation was political."
US Space Command will relocate its permanent headquarters from Colorado to the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama following a presidential announcement. The relocation returns to Pentagon plans from the final days of the prior Trump administration and follows an Air Force recommendation issued on January 13, 2021. Space Command is a unified combatant command composed of personnel from all military services, while the Space Force supplies personnel and technology and sits within the Department of the Air Force. The Pentagon asserts the move will save money but acknowledges potential risks to military readiness. Colorado lawmakers protested the recommendation as political.
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