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To: SleeperCatcher

Let the jokes begin. Will those going to the Space Force Academy be called space cadets?


5 posted on 08/09/2018 12:15:58 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Time to re-open Space Academy.


7 posted on 08/09/2018 12:19:58 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: AlaskaErik

“Will those going to the Space Force Academy be called space cadets?”

Funny thing, the USAF space school did refer to the students as space cadets. Not formally, but we loved to joke about it.


8 posted on 08/09/2018 12:20:04 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: AlaskaErik

Let the jokes begin. Will those going to the Space Force Academy be called space cadets?


The were in the Heinlein novel of that name. I believe that is where the term came from.

The space cadets in the novel were top rate.


11 posted on 08/09/2018 12:24:19 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: AlaskaErik

>>Let the jokes begin. Will those going to the Space Force Academy be called space cadets?<<

Question being...will there be an inspection team of Space Cadets to attempt to find water in and around Uranus? I dunno, just asking.


18 posted on 08/09/2018 12:31:28 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: AlaskaErik

Astronuts.


25 posted on 08/09/2018 12:34:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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64 posted on 08/09/2018 11:26:30 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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