The Air Force has inactivated the DOD Manned Space Flight Support Office at Patrick AFB, Fla., and shifted the work to a new unit—the Human Space Flight Support—under the 45th Space Wing’s Operations Group at Patrick. A Patrick news release states that the HSFS will “handle most of the tactical, day-to-day operations previously handled by DDMS.” It adds that DDMS “strategic operations” now fall under the Joint Force Component Command for Space at Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
The roles and missions executed by Air Force warriors are essential to the nation’s security. Yet after three decades of constant demand and minimal replenishment, our Air Force is too small and too old. It needs to be rebuilt. The Trump administration and Congress must fund that modernization to ensure…