Author: Tom Roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com
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Analysis: Budget cuts could help make Colorado Springs’ case for Space Command | Tom Roeder
It didn’t happen in 2021, but Congress seems to be edging closer to cutting the Pentagon’s roughly $2 billion daily budget. Signs have pointed to upcoming budget cuts for more than a year as Congress looks for ways to dam a river of red ink that has accompanied spending measures. This time, the Pentagon dodged…
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Analysis: Let Space Force have its Star Trek uniforms | Tom Roeder
I’ll confess to a giggle when I saw the Space Force’s proposed dress uniform. With a diagonal row of platinum buttons and a Nehru collar on the jacket that covers a conventional Air Force shirt and tie, it just seems a bit like a second-hand coat rejected by the producers of a Star Wars movie.…
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Analysis: After Afghanistan, it’s time to talk about troops, draft | Tom Roeder
The arguments continue, but the war in Afghanistan is over, and that will bring big changes across the military. Counter-insurgency training is already being forgotten as ground-pounding Army formations prepare for what has been called a “hyper war” that brings in electronic warfare along with combat in the air, space and sea. And a military…
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U.S. Space Command meets first capability milestone in Colorado Springs
Military leaders overseeing U.S. Space Command backed down from full-throated support of a process that would move it from Colorado Springs to Alabama, but said they’ll wait for a pair of federal investigations to conclude before they decide to reverse the decision. Former President Donald Trump caused controversy Friday when he told a syndicated radio…
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Space Symposium: Colorado aerospace industry the Mall of America for all things in orbit
Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium, the world’s largest space show, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “SCENES FROM | 36th Space Symposium”, “description”: “Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium, the world’s largest space show, held at The Broadmoor in…
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Space Symposium: Bluestaq melds shuffleboard and space situational awareness
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium, the world’s largest space show, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “SCENES FROM | 36th Space Symposium”, “description”: “Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium,…
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Trump confirms he ‘single-handedly’ dropped Colorado as Space Command home
Former President Donald Trump told a radio show Friday that he “single-handedly” picked Alabama as the new home for U.S. Space Command, confirming a January Gazette report and drawing fire from Colorado politicians and retired generals worried that the move could disrupt America’s defense of military satellites. Speaking to “Rick and Bubba,” an Alabama-based syndicated…
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Lamborn calls out Pentagon, intelligence agencies for Afghanistan ‘disaster’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn on Monday called the situation in Afghanistan “far worse than the fall of Saigon,” while slamming the Pentagon, intelligence agencies and President Joe Biden. A leading Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Lamborn said the Pentagon and…
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Analysis: It is time for Afghanistan to find its own heroes | Tom Roeder
America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan reopens old wounds that never really healed. Memories of people I miss flash through my mind. Maj. Phil Ambard raised five great kids and climbed from enlisted basic training at Lackland Air Force Base to a professorship at the Air Force Academy. Great guy, always wore a smile. An expert in…
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Veterans Affairs mandates COVID vaccine for health workers, including Colorado
The Department of Veterans Affairs became the first federal agency to mandate coronavirus vaccination for employees Monday when its leaders gave heath care workers eight weeks to get inoculated. The move impacts Veterans Health Administration workers including doctors and nurses who work at VA facilities including the Lindstrom Clinic in Colorado Springs and the agency’s…