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the Space and Missile Systems Center, which is responsible for space-related acquisition for the military.
This military organization is no longer called the Space and Missile Systems Center. It was redesignated as Space Systems Command in 2021.
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This is outdated.
The U.S. Space Force says Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo "serves as headquarters to the Space Systems Command (SSC)" and that SSC is the organization responsible for developing, testing and maintaining Department of Defense space systems. In other words, the current command at the base is Space Systems Command, not Space and Missile Systems Center.
Defense reporting from August 13, 2021 also states that the Space Force replaced the Space and Missile Systems Center with the newly established Space Systems Command. So the article is using a former name for the command in present tense.
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- Los Angeles Air Force Base - U.S. Space Force
Los Angeles AFB is located in ... El Segundo, California. It serves as headquarters to the Space Systems Command (SSC), which is responsible for developing, testing and maintaining military satellite constellations and other Department of Defense space systems.
- Space Force establishes Space Systems Command
Space Force officially stood up ... Space Systems Command Aug. 13, replacing the Space and Missile Systems Center it inherited from the Air Force with the new Space Systems Command.
which produces 276,000 barrels of crude oil daily.
A refinery does not produce crude oil; it refines crude oil into fuel and other products. Chevron’s El Segundo site describes itself as refining crude oil, not producing it.
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This confuses crude-oil production with oil refining.
Chevron's El Segundo site says the refinery is capable of refining crude oil per day, and its refining-process page explains that crude oil arrives at the refinery in its rawest form. That means the refinery takes crude oil as an input and processes it into fuels and other products; it does not produce crude oil.
So the sentence is incorrect because it describes the refinery as producing crude oil, when the refinery's role is to refine/process crude oil.
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- What we do — Chevron El Segundo
Today, the El Segundo Refinery ... is capable of refining 290 thousand barrels of crude oil per day.
- The Refining Process — Chevron El Segundo
Whether pumped through pipelines or shipped thousands of miles in tankers, crude oil arrives at our refinery in its rawest form.
both are outdoor pools, one of which is open only during the summer months.
At least one of El Segundo’s public pools is indoor, not outdoor. The city describes The Plunge as a large indoor swimming facility.
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The city's current aquatics information contradicts this.
El Segundo Recreation & Parks says Hilltop Pool is a seasonal pool, but it separately describes Urho Saari Swim Stadium "The Plunge" as "a large, indoor swimming facility open to the public." So the statement that the city's public pools are both outdoor is incorrect.
Even if one pool is seasonal and outdoors, the city explicitly identifies another public pool facility as indoor.
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- Aquatics Facilities | El Segundo Recreation & Parks
Hilltop Pool is a seasonal pool open for recreation swimming. ... Urho Saari Swim Stadium “The Plunge” ... Open for lap-swimming, rec swim and swim lessons.
- Urho Saari Swim Stadium "The Plunge" - El Segundo Recreation & Parks
The Urho Saari Swim Stadium, otherwise known as "The Plunge," is a large, indoor swimming facility open to the public.
before meeting the C Line near Interstate 105 and Aviation Boulevard and continuing along north for the rest of its length.
This transit description is outdated. Metro now says the K Line runs directly from Expo/Crenshaw to Redondo Beach via the LAX/Metro Transit Center, where it connects with the C Line.
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Metro changed this service pattern when the LAX/Metro Transit Center opened on June 6, 2025.
Metro's official LAX/Metro Transit Center page says the C Line now runs from Norwalk to the LAX/Metro Transit Center and the K Line now operates directly from Expo/Crenshaw Station to Redondo Beach Station via the new LAX/Metro Transit Center Station. That means the article's description of the K Line simply meeting the C Line near Interstate 105/Aviation Boulevard and then continuing north for the rest of its route is no longer accurate.
The current official routing has the K Line running through to Redondo Beach, with the C/K connection centered on LAX/Metro Transit Center.
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- LAX/Metro Transit Center - Opening June 6 | Los Angeles Metro
C Line: Runs from Norwalk to the new LAX/Metro Transit Center, its new final stop. ... K Line: Now operates directly from Expo/Crenshaw Station to Redondo Beach Station via the new LAX/Metro Transit Center Station.
- Now Boarding: Metro’s LAX/Metro Transit Center Station Officially Opens - LA Metro
Located at Aviation Blvd./96th St., the LAX/Metro Transit Center Station ... Connecting Metro’s C and K rail lines ...