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Makes sense with the SGC being in Cheyenne mountain and all.

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YES OMG GET FUCKED TUBERVILLE, YOU FUCKING PRICK!

I’ve said before I was terrified of the DoD capitulating to this fucking sorry excuse for a human being, but I’m glad to see his actions have had negative consequences for him specifically.

Ugh, even if this wasn’t done to protect the younger generation of women joining the armed forces, I’ll take it. It’s one less location that they can be sent to (yes of course Maxwell exists, as well as Scott in MO and alllllllll the fucking bases in Texas and Florida, so it’s a small win, but it IS a win)

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Keeping it squarely Located away from all oceans and Canada border in order to prevent eavesdropping and snooping, that is the reason why it remains there and the same reason that we have that listening station in Australia. It’s right in the dead center to avoid people snooping on communications, not hard to figure out. Alabama’s a backwater. They should be flushed down the toilet so who cares?

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This is a readiness issue and has everyone to do with Republican culture war politics in the state. Alabama is trying to make it difficult for certain people to exist there. That means the military cannot move certain people in and out and cannot recruit to that state as well.

This has nothing to do with how butt hurt you are about women’s rights or trans rights. The military needs bodies and they won’t put bases in states that make that more difficult. GOP politics are actively removing jobs from these states, period. Not just jobs in the military either. The amount of economic activity around military bases is staggering. Alabama just lost tens of thousands of civilian jobs as well.

Congratulations to Colorado for keeping your economy running by simply not being hateful pricks and trying to take away freedom from a very small percentage of Americans!

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As general observations,

It would be costly to relocate an entire Federal agency, and it would take until 2030 according to this article. That can’t help but impair readiness.

No shit it’s political. Everything that is done by politicians is political at some level. Dems want to reward Colorado and they gain nothing by trying to appease Alabama since nothing Dems do is going to flip Alabama blue.

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So by your logic they would just completely shut down space command at Cheyenne Mountain while building the base in Alabama? How stupid do you think our military leaders are lol?

It was DOD’s decision to tap Alabama in the first place because of budget and it’s DOD’s decision to pull out because it’s bad for national security. I’m not sure why you distrust or military so much but their just trying to protect us.

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You think taking rights away from all child bearing women in the US impacts a very small % of Americans?

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I was more referencing trans folks with that one. Should have been more clear.

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Why not just station them at Cheyenne Mountain?

That’s where the Stargate is anyway.

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That’s NORAD in there.

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Yeah, the top floors. You gotta go deeper to get to the weird alien stuff.

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That’s the official story at least, but we all know what’s really going on. There are 10 seasons of documentary detailing what’s really happening under that mountain.

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General Jumper built a larger Stargate at Vandenberg SFB, the Cheyenne Mountain SFS is a backup site and used mostly for logistics. The tunnels that run all the way to Denver International Airport ferry the cargo back and forth.

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Indeed.

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