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William Shatner Wants US Space Force To Use Navy Ranks, Just Like Star Trek
TrekMovie.com ^
| August 26, 2020
| TrekMovieStaff
Posted on 08/26/2020 3:48:21 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
Shatner calls for Space Force to follow Star Trek
William Shatner, Star Trek’s original Captain James T. Kirk, penned an op-ed appearing today in Military Times titled “What the heck is wrong with you, Space Force?” The issue that the Canadian-born Shatner seems to be most focused on is how the commanders of Naval ships generally hold the rank of Captain, including the real Captain James A. Kirk of the US Navy destroyer USS Zumwalt. But the equivalent Air Force rank is Colonel.
Shatner’s op-ed begins with:
(Excerpt) Read more at trekmovie.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; captkirk; congress; military; nasa; science; spaceforce; startrek; trump; williamshatner
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I think I'm in agreement with Shatner on this.
To: White Lives Matter
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:49:19 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: White Lives Matter
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:49:29 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: White Lives Matter
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:50:05 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
To: White Lives Matter
Ok, just don’t use Red Shirts, alright?
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:52:11 PM PDT
by
Intar
To: White Lives Matter
Agreed.
They are, after-all, called space "ships."
And astronauts "navigate" space.
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:52:52 PM PDT
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
To: White Lives Matter
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:52:53 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
To: rxsid
But in The Twightlight Zone the space commanders were always colonels
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:54:36 PM PDT
by
Okeydoker
To: White Lives Matter
Except the Space force is a branch of the Air Force
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:55:06 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
To: RandallFlagg
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:55:15 PM PDT
by
2001convSVT
(Medicare for All = Medical Care for None!)
To: White Lives Matter
Actually, the Navy has FAR more relevant experience to maintaining crews in tightly enclosed spaces for long periods of time than the Air Force...centuries of it, in fact.
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:55:44 PM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
To: White Lives Matter
How could they possibly go against the counsel of Capt. Kirk?
To: White Lives Matter
Interesting. I happened to be thinking about this only yesterday. I think that it’s inevitable that the Navy will take over the Space Force.
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:56:30 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
To: mylife
Is it? I thought it was supposed to be a completely new separate military organzation?
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:57:09 PM PDT
by
mylife
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To: White Lives Matter
I also have to agree-the Naval ranks seems the best fit-my hubby was career Army, so I have no dog in this fight-just an opinion...
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:57:21 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: White Lives Matter
I want to hear from Richard Dean Anderson (Colonel Jack O’Neill).
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:58:17 PM PDT
by
granite
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Intar
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:58:27 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: White Lives Matter
Space Force’s lineage and almost all personnel come from the US Air Force.
They’re not swabbies. Marines don’t have Navy ranks, why should an Air Force based military?
Alas Babylon, SMSgt, USAF, Retired.
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:58:37 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
To: Dilbert San Diego
The U.S. Space Force is organized as a military service branch within the Department of the Air Force
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posted on
08/26/2020 3:58:50 PM PDT
by
mylife
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