Make no mistake: President Donald Trump made the right call this week when he announced that SPACECOM will be based at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. In doing so, he ended a long and misguided delay in permanently basing a combatant command that is critical to U.S. national security.

I was serving as chief of staff for former coach, now-Senator, and future-governor Tommy Tuberville when the call from the Secretary of the Air Force came announcing Huntsville as the “preferred location.”

From the start, it was clear the decision was based on an objective evaluation of mission, infrastructure, community, and cost. Huntsville always scored best.

When that selection process was challenged by politicos afflicted with an ailment that we in the Tuberville office came to call “ sore lo

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