Author: Tom Roeder

??With U.S. Space Command in the balance?, a lawmaker perennially voted as the most conservative member of Congress is turning left for help. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn isn’t switching parties, but the decision in the final days of the Trump administration to move the command and its 1,400 troops to Alabama has been compounded by…

A pair of congressional Democrats asked the Pentagon’s watchdog on Tuesday to probe the role of political influence in the Trump administration’s decision to uproot U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs, amid concerns that the command’s civilian workforce could quit rather than relocate to Alabama. Reps. John Garamendi, D-Calif., and James Cooper, D-Tenn., said the…

Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers responds to the announcement about the future home of US Space Command. (Video provided by the City of Colorado Springs) Like much of the military’s history in Colorado Springs, the story of U.S. Space Command and the new Space Force service branch starts at The Broadmoor. The Broadmoor is where Colorado…

Colorado’s newest U.S. senator will soon get his committee assignments. And if Democrat John Hickenlooper wants to help Colorado, he needs a seat he’s requested on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Colorado hasn’t had a senator on the Senate’s military committee since Mark Udall lost his seat to the man Hickenlooper defeated, Republican Cory Gardner.…

U.S. Space Command was a campaign issue in November, with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and former Gov. John Hickenlooper, in his Senate bid, claiming their leadership would help keep the lucrative headquarters in Colorado for good. In truth, every federal-level politician from Colorado has pushed for the command to stay in the Rockies, and top…

A dramatic spike in coronavirus infections led to an ongoing lockdown at the Air Force Academy, where cadets have been isolated in their dorm rooms as leaders wait for the epidemic to subside. Leaders say the exponential spread of the virus coincided with October’s “third wave” of the pandemic arriving in Colorado. In the close…

A Pentagon program to stop leaks to the media, including educational materials on information security that were leaked to The Gazette, initially referred to reporters as the military’s “adversaries.” The Trump administration has worked for years to tighten up a leaky Pentagon, including ordering the Air Force to shut down its public relations program for…

Three Air Force wings that have called Colorado home for decades got new names and a reorganization on Friday that created seven new Space Force “deltas,” a mid-sized unit that fills in for wings and groups in the new service’s lingo. The deltas, with a name that resembles the new triangular Space Force logo, are…