WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command's HQ in Colorado, overturning a decision by the Trump administration to move it to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., and ending months of politically fueled debate, according to unnamed senior U.S. officials. Those officials said Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. ... However, in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move. (The Ap 07/31/23) Biden to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Huntsville | Alabama | wtva.com
Editor's Note: In a political observation, Colorado voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Alabama did not. ... Historically, another Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, shut down an Alabama base in Alabama, and moved it to his home state of Texas, after failing to win the state's electoral college vote in 1964. Regarding the latter, whatever happened to the Base Closure Commission and the process of moving, closing bases in a non-partisan manner?
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