Lt. Gen. Richard Zellmann, deputy commander for U.S. Space Command, visited Space and Missile Defense Command units in Colorado and Alabama to assess new capabilities from one of SPACECOM’s component commands.
During his visit to the 1st Space Brigade, headquartered at Fort Carson, Colorado, brigade Soldiers demonstrated an expeditionary small form factor system, which can rapidly deploy to provide close space support to Army, joint and coalition ground forces. Marines with the Marine Corps Forces Space Command, the Marine Corps service component to SPACECOM, also demonstrated expeditionary space capabilities alongside the Soldiers. Since 2021, the brigade has trained select Marines on using space-based capabilities to assist warfighters.
“We were happy to demonstrate how Army Space capabilities work to provide close space support to Army and Joint Force commanders,” Lt. Col. Ryan Stephenson, commander of 1st Space Battalion, said. “We showed Lt. Gen. Zellmann how we train alongside our Marine counterparts and deploy to give options to the Joint Force and the Department of War.”…