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COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. – The fact that this year’s Space Symposium at the Broadmoor is the biggest symposium yet is proof of just how important space has become, both to our economy and our military.
More evidence of that military importance came Thursday afternoon just a few miles away at Fort Carson, as a longtime tenant of Colorado Springs finally got a home of its own.
Lieutenant General James Dickinson, Commander of Army Space and Missile Defense was on hand Thursday for the ribbon cutting, a ceremonial end to a nearly 3 year project to create a permanent home at the mountain post for the Army’s 1st Space Brigade.
“It’s a great day to be an army space warrior, right?” said Dickinson in his brief address to soldiers and past commanders of the brigade.
The 1st Space Brigade is the Army’s only brigade dedicated to managing satellites, monitoring for missiles, and even embedding teams with troops to provide space support on the ground.
