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Basing Decision for U.S. Space Command in January 2021 Overruled Advice of U.S. Space Command and Space Force

Frank Wolfe

Friday, June 3rd, 2022

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Basing Decision for U.S. Space Command in January 2021 Overruled Advice of U.S. Space Command and Space Force

The newly finished red carpet on the Peterson Space Force Base flight line on May 26 (U.S. Space Force Photo),

The decision to transfer U.S. Space Command from its temporary headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., to Redstone Arsenal, Ala., contradicted inputs from U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, and then Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. John Hyten, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). On Jan. 11, 2021, a day before then U.S. Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett announced…

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Pentagon

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