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Selecting Colorado Springs as the permanent location for USSPACECOM is one in series of basing decisions that the United States military has made over many decades in the Pikes Peak Region. In establishing Camp Carson, Peterson Field, Ent Air Force Base (first home of NORAD), Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the United States Air Force Academy, and Falcon Air Force Station (now Schriever AFB), our community has risen to each occasion with our dedication and support to the process for the mission, and the people carrying out the mission, to call Colorado Springs home. The Pikes Peak Region...

The site selection committee for Space Command will assess Colorado Springs this week in their mission to choose one of five finalist cities to serve as the permanent host of the combatant command, already based in the Springs. We hope committee members get the full appreciation for the role Colorado Springs serves as the county’s best military town, bar none. Keeping Space Command in the Springs will benefit all of Colorado with more than 1,400 high-skilled, high-wage jobs and a command that will bolster the state's soaring aerospace culture and industry. Regardless of other factors that m...