{"id":143471,"date":"2025-09-09T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:59:07","slug":"u-s-space-command-officials-meet-with-north-alabama-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143471\/","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=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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=\"nofollow 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":2,"featured_media":143472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[89209,61453,89210,89203,89208,89207,89204,17776,89201,89206,89202,79,193,45820,89205,57609,81688],"class_list":["post-143471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-chief-master-sergeant","tag-city-hall","tag-commander","tag-general-whiting","tag-huntsville-mayor","tag-huntsville-mayor-tommy-battle","tag-jacob-simmons","tag-madison","tag-madison-mayor-paul-finley","tag-north-alabama","tag-paul-finley","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-command","tag-stephen-whiting","tag-tommy-battle","tag-u-s-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}