Arizona Republican Congressman Juan Ciscomani says new troops are stationed at Fort Huachuca — a Army installation just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County.
In a press release this week, Ciscomani said troops are there for a new mission, but the details are still unclear.
Fort Huachuca is already home to thousands of troops that were stationed there early last year as part of the Trump administration’s border security efforts. A spokesperson with Ciscomani’s office said this latest deployment is not related to that mission, but declined to give further details about how many new troops are being sent and what they’ll be doing.
Ciscomani and other congressional Republicans have repeatedly asked for the U.S. Air Force to bring a Space Force mission to Fort Huachuca — which they say provides a strategically sound, cost-effective location for the military’s new space exploration wing.
A Space Force mission was announced at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson earlier this year.
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