Tag: Pentagon
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Space National Guard debate leaves Colorado units ‘orphaned’
When the Space Force was established in late 2019, more than 1,000 Air National Guard members focused on space missions were left behind. A debate about their future is still raging, leaving the airmen in limbo some three years later. Lawmakers are debating a new Space National Guard that could leave the 16 space-focused guard…
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China surpasses U.S. in number of missile launchers, Pentagon says
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save China now has more intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers than the United States. Military officials in the Pentagon on Tuesday shared the news with Congress as required by law, according to a news release from Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO). “The head of U.S. Strategic Command…
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Aerospace companies urge Colorado senators to fight to keep Space Command
More than a dozen aerospace companies throughout the state rallied together to say Colorado should be the permanent home for U.S. Space Command. The Gazette has learned 13 aerospace companies and accelerators sent a collective letter to Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, saying the command should remain in Colorado. The…
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Sexual assault reports at Air Force Academy highest in at least 16 years
The Air Force Academy had its highest number of reported sexual assaults in at least 16 years, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday. The Department of Defense annual report on sexual harassment and violence at the military’s service academies for the 2020-2021 academic year shows the Air Force Academy atop the nation’s two other…
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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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Space Force abolished? House bill would do just that
A group of House Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday to abolish the nation’s newest armed service, eliminating the Space Force and giving the Air Force its responsibilities. Backed by five members of the House Progressive Caucus, which is composed of Democrats on the party’s left wing, the “No Militarization of Space Act” was introduced as…
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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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Military veterans look back on 20 years of war in Afghanistan
Dustin Gray had already served three years in the Army when 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airplanes, flying two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon outside Washington D.C. with the fourth crashing in a field in Shanksville, Penn. Nearly 3,000 people died on Sept.…
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Generals put stars behind effort to keep Space Command in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Six months after the Trump administration spurned Colorado as the permanent home for U.S. Space Command, a campaign to reverse the decision to send it to Huntsville, Ala., continues to grow. The latest to lend their names to the effort are retired Air Force Gen.…
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Analysis: Army vet Kendall well-positioned for Space Command decision | Tom Roeder
The Biden administration’s pick to lead the Air Force is a West Point graduate well-versed in the high-tech demands of the Space Force. Frank Kendall III, nominated last week as Air Force secretary, was one of the first Obama-era officials to warn of China’s growing military prowess. As the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, he worked…