COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The senior enlisted leader at the National Space Defense Center at Schriever Air Force Base, died Friday in a rock climbing accident, according to Air Force officials.

The Colorado Springs Gazette reports 37-year-old Senior Master Sgt. Harold Mosley II was rock climbing on Badger Mountain, about 40 miles northwest of Colorado Springs, when he fell. Other climbers carried out his body.

Badger Mountain, an 11,295-foot peak northwest of Lake George, is in the Pike National Forest, which also includes Pike’s Peak.

Mosley, who lived in Peyton, arrived at Schriever in June, according to base spokeswoman Jennifer Thibault.

Prior to his arrival at the NDSC, Mosley served as squadron superintendent for the 25th Space Range Squadron at Shriever. Before that, he was an Air Force Space Command requirements manager and helped to develop and design “the foundations of the National Space Defense Center,” serving as senior enlisted adviser to the first experiments, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Most of his career was devoted to space operations.

A graduate of the Community College of the Air Force and American Military University, he was working toward a master’s degree in leadership at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

“We are deeply saddened by this loss,” said Col. Mitchell Stratton, director of the NSDC. “We are a family and we are sad to lose one of our own. We will work to support each other in the coming days.”

The space center directly supports space defense unity of effort and expands information sharing in space defense operations among the DoD, National Reconnaissance Office and other interagency partners, according to a news release.

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