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Scale Top Modernization Priority for SPACECENT, As Commander Says He Talks Daily With CENTCOM Commander

Scale Top Modernization Priority for SPACECENT, As Commander Says He Talks Daily With CENTCOM Commander
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The U.S. Space Forces Central (SPACECENT) commander and Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), speak several times a day, a pace heightened by the nearly 10-month conflict in Iran, the head of SPACECENT and the Combined Forces Space Component Commander said on Monday. "Multiple times a day we're chatting, talking about things, especially with it being so busy," Brig. Gen. Todd Benson told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies virtual forum. "He [Cooper] pulls the whole…

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