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Why we should keep the Space Force in Colorado

By Tom Rogan
Published May 18, 2020 5:23pm ET
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Why we should keep the Space Force in Colorado
A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah. | (Bernard Schoenburg/The State Journal-Register via AP)

For the next six years, the nation’s newest military branch will be run out of Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. After that, the Space Force may be relocated to another state entirely.

Relocation would be a detriment to the nation’s security and finances.

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