Trump Is Moving the Least Important Branch of the Military to the Perfect Place

Oh, I see that he's well enough to start playing with his toys again. From Politico:

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama. ... The command will head to Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal in the coming years, departing its location at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. Biden canceled the move in 2023, opting to keep the command in Colorado. Trump has said previously that he personally chose Alabama over Colorado and other potential sites. Alabama lawmakers had long projected confidence that Trump would return to his original decision to move the command to Huntsville.

Honestly, I have no objection to this move that compares to my objection to the whole idea of the Space Force. Colorado Springs is a genuinely weird place, thick with hardcore evangelicals, many of whom are associated with the Air Force Academy. I've never been comfortable with a place with so many military men who can quote you Revelations from memory. I'll take the pick-up trucks and Cat hats of Huntsville over that any day.

And Huntsville has a long history with spaceflight. (The nearby minor-league baseball team, which I adore, is the Rocket City Trash Pandas.) Wernher von Braun and his merry band of adjusted passports set it up in the 1950s. It became the place where all of the rockets of NASA's glory days were built and tested. It's also been a PR bonanza—a tourist attraction and the home of NASA's Space Camp. If we're going to have a Space Force, and I remain fairly sure we don't need it, Huntsville is a helluva more appropriate than Jesusland in the Rockies. Okay, by me, anyway.