SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. –
Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) Commander and Combined Joint Force Space Component Commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Tina Timmerman, S4S Command Senior Enlisted Leader, hosted Dr. Jon Epstein, Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) professional staff member (PSM), and Ms. Kristina Belcourt, SASC PSM, at the National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Oct. 21, 2024. While visiting the NSDC, they attended a classified brief to discuss joint space operations planning and better understand how S4S plans to protect the joint warfighter from space enabled attack and defend our space assets and those of our allies. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dalton Prejeant)