The location of the battle command by the space warms up when the legislators press the new Air Force Secretary

Years after Trump’s first administration moved to designate Alabama as the headquarters of the See of Dance Space (HQ), the political shot of war at the base continued.

Colorado Republicans urge the President to rethink the decision, while Alabama legislators insist that they will do so and should move forward.

After his confirmation on May 13, the new Air Force Secretary, Troy Meink, can now wait for many calls from Capitol Hill who took him out in different directions on the social quarter.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers, said he had already discussed with him.

“I look forward to his recommendation to agree with the last two Air Force Secretaries and recommend Huntsville,” he said. “And I hope fully, according to our conversation, this will be what happens.”

The House of Space Force, for the moment, -Colorado Springs, Colorado, has a sense of money that has already been invested in the creation of shops, according to the representative Jeff Crank, R-Polo, whose district includes the current social quarter.

“It would mean $ 2 billion savings to leave it,” Crank said to Fox News Digital, who pointed out the savings of not having to build a new headquarters.

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President Donald Trump announced the plans to move his headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama, in his first term, but former President Joe Bid undoed these plans when he went into office.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers, said he had already discussed the matter with the new Air Force Secretary. (Ten Shen/Bloomberg through Getty Images)

Space Command has worked out of the base of Peterson’s space force in Colorado Springs since its inception in 2019. The command is responsible for military operations in space and will play an important role in the Golden Dome project.

Crank argues that Geographically, Colorado makes more sense: it is also the home of the northern command, and the two will have to coordinate -on the new Trump Golden Missile Defense Project.

“They need to be perfect in their efforts to communicate,” said Crank. “We don’t want any delay to get the golden dome to work.”

He argued that Space Command HQ, located on Cheyenne Mountain, is already “one of the safest facilities” in the country. Being in the middle of the United States, he added, makes it harder to attack enemies.

“From the point of view of survival, having it as an asset is also really important.”

Rogers took off the complaints from his Colorado counterparts and argued that Alabama had won just and square.

“They are just doing their job, you know, they don’t want to leave,” Rogers said. But, “they lost two national competitions. It is not me to say that I should be in Huntsville.”

The President of the United States, Biden, greets the United States Air Force riders at the base of Peterson's spatial force in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 31, 2023.

At that time, President Joe Biden, who is shown in the greeting of Thunderbirds Air Force pilots at the base of Peterson’s space force in Colorado Springs, Colorado, moved to maintain the base in Colorado. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP through Getty Images)

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He argued that right now, the command is distributed between four and five different buildings, some of which are outside the base perimeter.

“None of them was built for classified operations,” he said. “They just make it work.”

Rogers noted a recent report by the General Inspector of the Department of Defense (IG) who examined Biden’s decision of 2023 of not moving the headquarters. This report found that the Secretary of the force Air, Frank Kendall, recommended that Spacoom be headed to Redstone Arsenal, near Huntsville, Alabama, because the movement would save $ 462 million.

However, then the Spalacecom commander, General James Dickinson, wanted to keep the headquarters permanent in Colorado due to the conclusions of the Air Force that the Alabama option would not be operational for three to four years. Dickinson and Spalacecom’s officers also worried that more than half the highly trained civilian staff would leave instead of moving to Alabama for work.

“Uspecom’s leadership provided that the loss of civilian staff could occur long before (Air Force) and that USSPACECOM would not be able to ensure the labor investments needed to mitigate the impact of this loss on the disposition of the command,” says the report.

Space Command Headquarters

Space command headquarters. (Space Command/Petty Office 1st Class John Wagner)

However, Rogers argued, Colorado also had labor problems.

“The reason for which Secretary Kendall did not conceive with them and recommended that he was still moving was that more than 300 of the current jobs at Colorado Springs could not be filled,” he said. “They had to hire them.”

Crank argued that the IGS report’s cost findings were defective because it meant that Colorado should build a new social quarter building, which he says he would not.

“”We don’t need to build a new building from the headquarters, “he said.” There is one. If you say you need to build a new building from the headquarters, I think it advises Alabama from a cost perspective at $ 400 million. ”

“But if you don’t do it and we don’t need it, you already have a headquarters building, saves taxpayers $ 2 billion,” he said.

The IG report said that it could “not determine” why Kendall never made a formal announcement decision for the transition of Spalaceom after the end of September 2022 of an environmental impact assessment of the place of the headquarters in Alabama.

Without a formal advertisement, SpaCecom was able to declare complete operational capacity to Colorado, according to the report.

Rogers said that the IG report showed that the Biden administration movement was political and in April predicted that Trump would formally call Alabama as a home for space force within the month.

However, Crank, along with GOP representatives, Lauren Boebert, Gabe Evans and Jeff Hurd, wrote to Trump and warned him that the movement would affect preparation.

“Moving the command would disturb these established capacities and collaborations, further decreasing our preparation to face evolving threats,” they wrote in a letter of April 8.

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However, Rogers seems confident that the movement will advance.

“There is absolutely no national security implications for moving -la,” he said.

“Must be in a permanent headquarters and must be inside the fence. Everything that will happen in Huntsville.”

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