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  1. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    And yet their boss's still come out of Colorado Springs for the most part. Basic being in Texas in no way invalidates that the training pipeline at the Air Force academy and the AF/SF infrastructure in place around it (ignoring Ft. Carson and it's Army Spec Ops/Mountain ops role) means there is...
  2. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    Yes, the officers, AKA the people who do the important shit in those branches. Remember, the Air Force, and Space Force, are not structured around supporting a lot of grunts and NCO who do most of the fighting. In the AF, it's mostly officers at the sharp end of things, due to how pilot rules...
  3. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    One of the launch locations; you forget Musk uses Vandenburg too. Colorado is centrally located for launches from Vandenburg, Boca Chica, and Cape Canaveral. And there is no Space Force training pipeline at Redstone either, compared to what exists at the Air Force Academy.
  4. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    'Rockets' in the military sense are not the same as the mutliple players in the space industry that call Colorado home. ULA, Sierra Space, the Uni of Colorado Boulder who does a lot of the probes/sats that the Space Force would have to account for, the fact that Front Range Airport has already...
  5. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    Huh, I'd for some reason heard Georgia when it was mentioned elsewhere. Still, the reasoning about being deeper in the ABM envelope and not having to worry about hurricanes hold's true, as does that Trump was moving it to a red state to punish blue Colorado.
  6. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    You keep forgetting the political aspect of base/command shifting; the only reason it was headed to Redstone to begin with was because Trump was trying to bolster his support in Georgia when it started looking bluer than he'd like. Also, Colorado is not susceptible to Status-6 hits or...
  7. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    Why not, they are mostly just using it as a back-up/training center for NORAD out at Peterson these days. And 'rocket home' =/= 'good space command HQ', compared to the already existing infrastructure, training facilities, and hardened capabilities present in Colorado Springs. Space Command...
  8. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    NORAD says hi, as does the Air Force Academy, Peterson, and Cheyenne Mountain. There is a lot more reason to have the Space Force headquartered in CO/Colorado Springs than there is moving it all the way to Redstone.
  9. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    DeSantis making some international moves that seem like a...pre-game warm up for a POTUS run.
  10. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    Trump tried that in few instances. He moved the Bureau of Land Management (the OG BLM) office out to Grand Junction, since most BLM land is west of the Mississippi anyway, it's in an area with good access to most large BLM areas thanks to I-70, US 50, and US 550 all going through town, and...
  11. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    If POTUS wanted to spend as much time as possible away from DC, I have no problem with that. Just the climate in DC, never mind the politics, is unpleasant to reside in long term; it was literally a swamp before we built our Capital there.
  12. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    No way are Colorado taxpayers going to ok that; we may be a pretty blue state, but last election all the tax initiatives failed. We also aren't really the sort of state that cares about whether the governor lives in the mansion, when we are such an outdoor and wilderness focused state.
  13. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    It's in a neighborhood that has lousy traffic a lot of the time, is hard to get to any highway easily from it, it's more a symbol of the city/state than something people actually visit or live in much, and there are much nicer areas for someone who is Governor to live in.
  14. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    Why would anyone want to live full-time in that dusky old Governor's Mansion in the middle of Denver, when they have the rest of CO to enjoy and live in?
  15. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    You probably aren't wrong; realistically, the national level GOP would be better off accepting that Colorado is no long a swing state, and is deep blue for the most part. Focusing on keeping the few House seats they in CO would be a better use of GOP money.
  16. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    I'll vote for Ganahl, but I don't expect her or the GOP to win any new seats or offices in CO; MAGA is basically viewed as a swear word by a lot of the state.
  17. Bacle

    United States US State & Territory Governorships Megathread

    Well, that escalated.
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