Posted on 05/11/2021 1:26:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Vandenberg Air Force Base is getting a new name.
A ceremony on Friday will redesignate the base near Lompoc and the 30th Space Wing as Vandenberg Space Force Base and Space Launch Delta 30, under Space Operations Command, United States Space Force, according to base officials.
The new organization will allow squadron commanders to report directly to the SLD 30 commander, which the base says will create more efficiency.
Signs with the bases updated name were installed Saturday but are currently covered up.
How about Star Fleet Academy?
My heart almost stopped when I saw the title. Spent 21 years with a major contractor at VAFB, retired in 2005.
Nope-
Just didn’t understand what I read.
Because that will still be its name.
Just Space Force rather then Air Force.
Wasn’t Vandenburg a white guy, thus unfit to have a base named for him?
I just got out of the shower. What did I miss?
In all seriousness, my AFROTC Field Training was at Vandenberg in 1989. Loved it, but never had a chance to stop by Vandy Airplane Patch again.
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