The Democrats said the move appeared to be "untethered from national security and military judgment.” Author: Tom Roeder Colorado Springs Gazette Published: 9:35 AM MST January 20, 2021 Updated: 9:35 AM MST January 20, 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — 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 Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said the decision pulling the command to Huntsville, Ala., “appears to be untethered from national security and military judgment.”