March 02, 2026 12:26 PM UTC

Space Command Offers Big Bucks To Bribe Vital Workers To Alabama

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• by: Colorado Pols

As readers know, President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Space Command to move from its present headquarters in Colorado Springs to Huntsville Alabama, making good on a corrupt promise he made to that state’s loyal Republicans on his way out of office in 2021 and punishing Colorado for our political disloyalty–factors that governed Trump’s decision after retaking office in 2025 to carry out the transplantation of Space Command’s thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in investment.

But despite all the fashionability among Republicans near and far of disparaging the state of Colorado as a crime-ridden hellhole besieged by Tren de Aragua with abortion and sex change drive-thrus next to every elementary school, it seems that Space Command is running into…some difficulty in persuading crucial personnel and civilian contractors to give up their home on the Front Range for the Heart of Dixie. Derek Lacey reports for Axios:

U.S. Space Command is offering “significant relocation bonuses” to workers if they relocate from Colorado Springs to Huntsville.

Why it matters: The relocation of SPACECOM to Redstone Arsenal is in full swing, per Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting, and half its personnel will be in town by 2029, per Sen. Katie Britt.

What they’re saying: “We are trying to do everything we can to incentivize our workforce,” Whiting told reporters at a symposium in Colorado earlier this week, as reported by Air and Space Forces Magazine.

From the above-mentioned story in Air and Space Forces Magazine:

“We are trying to do everything we can to incentivize our workforce,” Gen. Stephen N. Whiting told reporters Feb. 24 at AFA’s Warfare Symposium here. “I’ve said to our civilian workforce, I want to make this decision as difficult as it can be for them [Pols emphasis] because we’re putting our money where our mouth is that we need their expertise to sustain our mission.”

To that end, SPACECOM has established a retention bonus for staff before the move gets underway, he said…

“The direction we’ve been given is to move a significant portion of our staff in the next three years to Redstone, even as we’re building the permanent headquarters facility that’ll be designed just for us,” Whiting said. Some 1,400 jobs are expected to move to Alabama.

Space Command Gen. Stephen Whiting is implicitly admitting that the “difficulty” for Space Command workers is the choice to abandon the quality of life they currently enjoy in the Colorado Springs area for the immeasurably less desirable environs of northern Alabama. While it’s true that the Huntville area is considered the most livable region of not just Alabama but arguably the whole South…it’s still the South. The humidity is terrible, rivaled only by the hot air from their backward politicians. We wouldn’t live there on a dare.

It is therefore in no way surprising that Space Command workers are not interested in making the move to Alabama simply to gratify Trump’s thirst for vengeance against the state of Colorado. The costs of “incentivizing” them to move, coupled with the brain drain from the institution that is inevitable despite these retention efforts, are collateral damage from Trump’s prioritization of making our state suffer over national security.

Remember this story next time you see one of those doom-and-gloom WalletHub surveys.