{"id":212143,"date":"2025-09-09T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212143\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:35:10","slug":"u-s-space-command-officials-meet-with-north-alabama-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212143\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Space Command officials meet with North Alabama leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MADISON, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; The top brass from U.S. Space Command spent the day Monday with local leaders about the impacts North Alabama could face when the headquarters is set up on Redstone Arsenal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Commander General Stephen Whiting and Chief Master Sergeant Jacob Simmons spent the morning with Madison Mayor Paul Finley about the plans when HQ sets up shop in Huntsville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During this meeting, the trio talked about key infrastructure projects that could help lighten the load when thousands of new residents come to town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They also discussed the current state of schools and potential expansions that could be necessary with the growing population. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Huntsville mayor Tommy Battle got a similar visit Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His office says General Whiting and Chief Master Sergeant Jacob Simmons stopped by City Hall to discuss the formal transition of Space Command\u2019s permanent headquarters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; The top brass from U.S. Space Command spent the day Monday with local leaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[116163,13239,500,116157,116162,116161,116158,29917,116155,24520,116156,159,783,68268,116159,116160,116154,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-212143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-chief-master-sergeant","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-commander","11":"tag-general-whiting","12":"tag-huntsville-mayor","13":"tag-huntsville-mayor-tommy-battle","14":"tag-jacob-simmons","15":"tag-madison","16":"tag-madison-mayor-paul-finley","17":"tag-north-alabama","18":"tag-paul-finley","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-space-command","22":"tag-stephen-whiting","23":"tag-tommy-battle","24":"tag-u-s-space-command","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115172954849376525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}