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With Congressional Blessing, Space Force Is Closer To Launch
WABE-FM ^
| August 12, 2019
| Claudia Grisales
Posted on 08/12/2019 5:15:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It started as a joke.
Early last year, President Trump riffed on an idea he called “Space Force” before a crowd of Marines in San Diego.
It drew laughs, but the moment was a breakthrough for a plan that had languished for nearly 20 years. “I said maybe we need a new force, we’ll call it the Space Force,” Trump said at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in March 2018. “And I was not really serious. Then I said, ‘What a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that.'”
But now, under a new name and with Congress’ support, Space Force is closer to becoming a new military reality. It would be the first new military service in more than 70 years.
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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; spacex
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Complete with Spacemen and Space Police.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:18:18 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Crap. Another wasteful, bloated, Unionized government bureaucracy.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:22:52 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Space force to the rescue!!
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:23:19 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It started as a joke. It's still a joke.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Green leather jackets with a row of diagonal buttons, topped off with a gold football helmet. My God it would be beautiful.
To: Mr Ramsbotham
will there be space cadets?
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:32:41 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Make America Grateful Again)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Would you like to know
MORE?
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:33:47 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I just wonder exactly why we need a space force.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:42:03 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: Texas Eagle
It won’t be that bad with Trump as Commander in Chief. He gets to appoint the top.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:43:08 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: Theophilus
Lots of space cowboys.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:44:34 AM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: wastedyears
Maybe so, but what happens after he leaves office?
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:44:55 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: wastedyears
The article goes into that pretty well.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:45:10 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: wastedyears
Because communist China and Russia are militerizing space and we need to counteract that.
Whoever controls the “high ground” wins.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:45:20 AM PDT
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
To: Jmouse007
So what reason is there for an an entirely new branch of the military if we’re worried about Russian and Chinese satellites? There must be something more to it.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:47:34 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: wastedyears
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:52:29 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
"Complete with Spacemen and Space Police."
Can't wait to visit the Space Force Gift Shoppe and buy a hat!
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:57:31 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Texas Eagle
“Crap. Another wasteful, bloated, Unionized government bureaucracy.”
Agree, better to let China, Russia, North Korea, and soon Iran simply BLIND US by taking out our satellites when one of them decides to finally put an end to the United States.
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posted on
08/12/2019 6:21:06 AM PDT
by
BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
To: Theophilus
Well, if the Space Force gets its own academy (like the Army, Navy, and Air Force have), presumably the students there will be Space Cadets.
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