President Trump introduced Tuesday afternoon that U.S. Area Command headquarters is shifting from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama.
In 2018 he had signed an order reestablishing U.S. Area Command, after it had been absorbed in 2002 into U.S. Strategic Command. Its primary aim is to seek out methods to defend U.S. pursuits in house. In 2023, President Joe Biden had decided as a substitute to maintain Area Command headquarters in Colorado, the place its short-term headquarters was situated, overturning Mr. Trump’s first-term determination to maneuver it to Alabama.
Biden had been satisfied by the top of Area Command on the time that shifting its headquarters would jeopardize army readiness. His reversal prompted the Home Armed Companies Committee, chaired by Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama, to request the Pentagon’s watchdog examine the basing determination.
The Protection Division inspector common stated in a report that Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, could be the Air Drive’s most well-liked location for the command, however constructing services equal to those that had been already in Colorado might take three to 4 years. In line with the IG’s report, Military Gen. James Dickinson, then the commander of U.S. Area Command, voiced issues concerning the timeline’s influence on the command’s readiness, which contributed to the choice Biden had made to maintain the headquarters in Colorado.
