Trump announces he’s directing Pentagon to create ‘space force’ as independent service branch

https://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | June 18, 2018

[NKP_Vet]

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[Yaelle]

Aha! Proof that Trump is secretly colluding with aliens!! No wonder Hillary lost!

[GraceG]

[ There are those who say such a force has been in service for years. ]

[Alas Babylon!]

Direct link. Won’t show picture, sorry!

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[Yaelle]

space junk cleaning operations

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Just cleaning the space Americans won’t.

[AndyJackson]

Reorganizing the military, creating a new branch, etc. will require an act of Congress not just an order from the President.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“First Rule of U.S. Space Force; nobody talks about U.S. Space Force!” :)

“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpqObhK4Rw

P.S. “You are NOT a beautiful and unique SNOWFLAKE...”

[Yaelle]

That plane is so gorgeous. I could marry it. I think it’s legal now.

[Army Air Corps]

That’s a heck of a promotion for Buck.

[MeganC]

“And what will this do that the current Air Force Space Command does not?”

The USAF used to be part of the US Army. And people who still insisted that aircraft were ‘newfangled gimcracks’ didn’t see the sense in letting the US Army Air Corps become its own branch of service.

[CDB]

Blue uniforms change to midnight black. Summer dress is silver-grey. Stripes are silver and slanted in a more modern style, with a Star Trek like center.

Rule One: NO Klingons!

[MeganC]

Upside of the space force being separated from the USAF is the USAF won’t be trying to argue that the F-35 can work ‘just fine’ as a space shuttle.

[NKP_Vet]

Trump tried to get this included in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act. It was opposed by virtually the entire DOD, including Mattis. The idea of a separate Space Corps was killed in conference. Instead, the 2018 NDAA boosts the position of Air Force Space Command, by extending the term of its commander to six years, and making it the sole command for all Air Force space forces.[24][25]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Corps

[wastedyears]

I don’t like it. What does he know? Who’s out there and how bad are they?

[palmer]

Same reason there’s now a separate cyber branch. There are completely different strategies, tactics and technologies involved. The procurement of those is completely different. AFAIK, there’s no much at DARPA for space, unlike for cyber. I have no idea how we’re going to pull our butts out of this fire, but it is long overdue.

[messierhunter]

"We had lot of aircraft on-hand when the USAF was created., but we have no manned spacecraft of any kind and none in the pipeline."
I agree with the thrust of what you were saying, but we have not one, not two, but three manned orbital spacecraft currently in the pipeline. Orion, Dragon V2, and the CST-100. We have no shortage of manned vehicles in the pipeline, we have a lack of operational manned vehicles with all three of the aforementioned being behind schedule.

[V_TWIN]

See my post # 25 lol

[whinecountry]

LOL!

[NorthMountain]

[DCBryan1]

Can’t wait to see the uniforms.

Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen:

[palmer]

China and others can wreck out lives if they started a real anti-satellite attack.

Yeah, and they've got a 50 year head start. Pretending that space is not militarized is like pretending that China has no nukes.