Posted on 12/13/2019 6:11:15 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
A bipartisan defense budget agreement will authorize the creation of the Space Force.
The Space Force will be, like the Army or Air Force, a distinct military service under the Pentagon.
The service will take over space functions from existing services, wielding them into a single independent branch overseen by a Chief of Space Operations.
It’s really happening. A bipartisan budget agreement for 2020 will see the creation of a new branch of the military specifically oriented towards space. The United States Space Force will be the first new service branch in more than 60 years, tasked to ensure America’s freedom to operate in outer space—or take space away from somebody else.
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The Pentagon is now officially outdated. We’re gonna need to build a Hexagon.
pastime
Traffic up there. Need some organization to the paths. And look at the possibilities of the “mother may I” tax possibilities for private concerns like all the different com satellites, to include the low level stuff. They are just reaching out for more places to tax as they have almost run out of land and sea.
But the real problem is that the government is trying to do it. Back in the late 70’s, at MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL, they tried to put all the maintenance units together under one coordination for two wings and a TAC fighter training squadron (4501st). It took about 6 months for them to find out it put a smaller group of people that would actually talk, in over their heads with too much to talk about. They never learn.
rwood
Could the Space Force eventually field manned, armed spaceships? In 1794, the year it was established, the United States Navy was equipped with just six frigates. Today the Navy numbers nearly three hundred warships worldwide. Who knows what the next 230 years could bring for the Space Force?He's got it bass ackwards.But as exciting as a new military branch is, it’s not great news in the long run. Mankind brings war into every domain it enters—first sea, then air, and now space. It’s not a good record. As cool as it sounds, the militarization of space is a net loss for mankind.
Everywhere we've learned to fight, we've learned to live...
And Skinnies
This was a special bomb, one issued to each of us for this mission with instructions to use them if we found ways to make them effective. The squawking I heard as I threw it was the bomb shouting in skinny talk (free translation): “I’m a thirty second bomb! I’m a thirty second bomb! Twenty-nine! Twenty-eight! Twenty-seven!...”
You F with our country, not only will we track you, personally, down and kill your worthless butt, and as many of your equally worthless kin as that mission takes, but your entire country and/or those that supported you will simply cease to exist.
Afghanistan should have been fragmented along ethnic lines into mutually warring pissant regions, and the same fate should have befallen Iraq.
Turkey, who wouldn't allow us to stage on their turf would be rewarded with a hostile Kurdistan on their border...
I was going to say the same thing, glad I read ahead first.
I do agree. Specific details of implementation are always debatable, but I generally think that a terrorist attack on an American citizen should result in a devastating attack on an Islamic population center with the goal of killing a lot of people. And always mention that Mecca could be a target too.
Trade the attacks back and forth. See who decides to stop attacking first.
Terrorism is best fought with terrorism. Make the other side afraid to attack you.
Okay, I'll bite. What did your read?
YES! My favorite novel. Jonny Rico is my hero! The movie was a complete travesty.
And those cool Buzz Lightyear wings the dudes and dudettes in AFSPACE wear.
“creating uniform changes!”
GAAAAHHHH!!! I was a huge proponent of changing the AFI so that the Uniform Board was only authorized to meet every 5 to 7 years. In my 30 years, I had 3 utility uniforms, 3 different service dress uniforms and 2 mess dress uniforms. And had to buy a black backpack and a black satchel after they decreed you couldn’t carry anything but black or digital. Oy...
I spent 4 years pulling reserve duty at AFSPC as the Senior IMA to the Staff Judge Advocate. Had to bring summer and winter uniforms unless it was mid-July. My first day of duty it was a balmy 68 when I went into the building and 28 with snow blowing sideways when I came out.
Colonel, USAF (ret)
Your post #22.
But thinking more about it, if we’re going to do that much construction, we may a well spin off the Marines as an independent branch and make it the Septagon!
We will find
sooner or later
if Achmed’ll pray
to a glowing crater
You must be OOOOLLLLLDDDDD!
Been there, done that...
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