A $ 30 million refurbishment project for a $ 30 million fitness center in Schryver Space Force base on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, Colorado was approved last month, and rural Guardians are more modern after years of fighting for renewals. You can now access the gym. building.
US Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, has designated the project in the 2022 Omnibus Expenditure Bill.Funding was secured last month and is essential to maintaining morale, recruitment and readiness, Senator’s aide told Military.com.
“Schreiber’s service members are on the lookout 24/7. The $ 30 million government spending bill has secured them to meet the growing demands of the population, Bennett said in an email statement. Will support the preparation of. “
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In the 1980s, a little over 200 Air Force personnel called Shreber home. Currently, more than 8,000 parents, contractors, and other military personnel work at space force bases.
Bennett’s aide says the countryside location of the base makes it difficult for Guardians to easily access the gym outside the fence line, and Schleiber’s gym is too small due to the influx of service members in recent installations. I did.
The nearest private gym option is in Colorado Springs, which takes about 30 minutes. Prior to becoming a space force facility last year, Shreber was an air force base focused on missile defense and satellite logistics.
When it was an air force base, Schreiber’s fitness center underwent a minor refurbishment for half a year.
In 2017, when the base began refurbishing the changing room shower, rot and corrosion were found behind the walls. Prior to that, the building had not changed since 2001, according to an Air Force press release at the time.
With $ 30 million in funding, a government contract seeking a bid for refurbishment was released online at the end of last month. The details of the project show Jim’s lofty plans.
More than 5,000 square meters added to the gym include new and refurbished “indoor running tracks, two large multipurpose basketball courts, racquetball courts, fitness areas, group exercise areas” and updated men’s and women’s It will be. locker room.
Bennett told Military.com that funding the project was “an opportunity for the Colorado community, including our military community, to communicate directly to Washington about their needs and concerns.”
The timeline for the renovation work has not yet been announced.
In a 2023 budget document released last month, the Air Force’s Space Force demanded $ 24.5 billion, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year.
The 2023 budget request for the Space Force did not have an estimate of construction, but the Air Force budget required $ 68 million to build a dormitory at the Clear Space Force Station in Denali, Alaska.
Many Space Force construction projects, such as the refurbishment of Schreiber’s fitness center, will be funded by state or parliament.
The construction of Schriever’s fitness center is due to Space Force planning to abolish the annual fitness test and will be primarily dependent on wearable fitness trackers by 2023.
The Guardian is waiting for beta testing and program deployment, so if you haven’t completed the Air Force’s fitness test in 2022, you’ll need to.
–Thomas Novelly can be contacted at thomas.novelly@military.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomNovelly.
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