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President Trump directs Defense Department to 'immediately begin the process' of establishing 'space force' as sixth military branch

The White House, Air Force and Defense Secretary James Mattis had disapproved of creating a sixth branch of the military last year.
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Donald Trump orders Pentagon to set up 'Space Force' within US military

President has repeatedly floated the idea of a space force as he pushes to redouble America's extraterrestrial efforts
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Trump directs establishment of U.S. force to dominate space

President Donald Trump on Monday said he was clearing the way for the United States to exercise extra-terrestrial dominance by establishing a new, sixth branch of the military that he dubbed a "space force."
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Trump orders establishment of 'space force' as 6th branch of military

Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately establish a national “space force” that would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.
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Today Trump ordered the Pentagon to establish the 6th U.S. military branch, the U.S. Space Force.

Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately establish a national “space force” that would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.

“We are going to have a space force,” Trump said in Washington D.C. “An Air Force and a Space Force. Separate, but equal.”

This is not the first time that Trump has floated the idea of establishing a “space force.” The president mentioned the idea in May during a ceremony at the White House honoring the Army Black Knights college football team.

Trump did not go into details about what military role the so-called “space force” would carry out or who would command it, but he framed space as a national security issue, saying he does not want "China and Russia and other countries leading us."

The president said the United States will "be the leader by far" in space and is looking to revive the nation's flagging space program by returning the United States to the moon and soon reaching Mars.
 
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Space Force troops won’t be called ‘spacemen’

The Space Force will start transferring airmen into its ranks this year.
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Space Force troops won’t be called ‘spacemen’

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A decision on the title to be bestowed upon Space Force personnel is still forthcoming, the service’s No. 2 general told reporters Wednesday, but the service is moving out on a plan to transfer thousands of current service members into its ranks over the next couple of years.

Of 16,000 Air Force Space Command service members and civilians currently assigned to Space Force, the 6,000 uniformed personnel there will become members of the fledgling force this year, Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of the Space Force, said, adding that the projected end strength will still be 16,000 when transfers are complete.

“Everybody’s watching — we can’t build a heavy bureaucratic structure even if we wanted to,” he said.

But they won’t be called “spacemen,” Thompson said, though leaders have been doing research on what to call their troops and crowdsourcing ideas.

“We need to go through a process with Congress to provide authorization for specific individuals to transfer,” he said, adding that the plan is to bring over airmen first, then work on integrating soldiers, sailors and Marines from their respective space units.

That will involve setting up personnel systems, pay and benefits and other processes inherent to a stand-alone service.

“We also want to make absolutely sure that when these individuals transfer in,that all of that is in place,” he said, to ensure everyone is getting paid on time and things run smoothly as they resign their commissions or end their enlistments with one service and take a new oath with Space Force.

According to a plan sent to Congress this month, the Air Force will transfer its personnel into fiscal year 2021, with the Army and Navy starting up in 2022.

At the same time, the Air Force Academy will stand up a Space Force detachment this year to feed Space Force officers to the service. In near- to mid-term, according to the report, Space Force personnel will do their initial entry training with the Air Force, and that instruction will get some updates to include more space-focused expertise.

For now, however, Air Force specialties in the space operations, intelligence, engineering, communications and acquisitions will transfer over to Space Force, while the Air Force will handle support like legal, finance, medical, human resources and so on.

At the same time, not every space-related service member in the military will be going into the Space Force. For instance, soldiers in Functional Area 40, who directly support Army operations, will stay soldiers.

But troops who work on “global space operations” will move to the Space Force, according to Stephen Kitay, deputy assistant defense secretary for space policy.

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Space Force vice commander: Service members won't be called 'spacemen'

Members of the newly created Space Force still don't have a title, officials said Wednesday while also saying they won't be referred to as "spacemen."
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Members of the newly created Space Force still don't have a title, officials said Wednesday, while also saying they won't be referred to as "spacemen."

Leaders have been conducting research on what to call the troops, said Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of the Space Force, Military Times reported.

“We need to go through a process with Congress to provide authorization for specific individuals to transfer,” he said at an event while speaking to reporters.

The sixth branch of the armed forces has around 16,000 Air Force service members and civilians assigned to it. Thompson said plans will be made to integrate soldiers, sailors and Marines who end their enlistments or resign their officer commissions with their current branches of service and opt to enter the Space Force.

The Air Force will transfer certain personnel to the new branch in the fiscal year 2021, with the Army and Navy to follow the year after.

“We also want to make absolutely sure that when these individuals transfer in, that all of that is in place,” Thompson said.
 
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iirc back around 2010 the Navy also had some ads along the lines of "lol fuck everything else, outer space, bitches"
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My favorites were those Navy SEAL and Marine commercials, they had like Godsmack playing and one Marine one I liked was this dude fighting a fucking lava dragon or something to become a marine, I thought it was cool as hell when I was a kid.

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Space Force just released its first recruitment ad. Now this is our defense budget tax dollars at work in a way I can get behind.

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"Maybe your purpose on this planet... isn't on this planet."

Fuck yeah, Space Force! We're gonna make the moon base and the Mars base and have ourselves some space marines!

Also while I'm still feeling like a kid over this, it's got a kitty face:
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Trump to travel to Florida to attend SpaceX launch

President Trump will be present at SpaceX's historic launch set for Wednesday.
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President Trump will travel to Florida for the historic SpaceX launch next week, the White House said Friday.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft are being prepared for a historic Demo-2 mission on Wednesday, which will launch NASA astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011.

It will be the first time a private company, rather than the national government, sends astronauts into orbit. It will also be only the fifth time in U.S. history that NASA astronauts will fly a new spacecraft for the first time.

“A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin,” NASA said in a statement.

Vice President Pence said this week he thinks the launch will serve as a sign of hope for Americans in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

"When that rocket goes off next week, it'll remind the American people that even in the midst of the most challenging times, America still moves forward," the vice president told Fox News during an interview at NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

"America continues to lead with courage and with bravery. Just like every American family has done, the NASA family did that throughout the coronavirus pandemic. They stayed on mission."

The Demo-2 mission is scheduled for May 27 at the Kennedy Space Center, when NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will launch on the Falcon 9 rocket.

It will signify a step in the Trump administration’s goal to reestablish American dominance in space. In December 2019, Trump signed a defense spending bill authorizing the creation of the Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military.

The Space Force recently released a recruitment video, telling potential cadets: "Maybe your purpose on this planet isn't on this planet."
 
Get in here niggas and watch the rocket go boom into sky while the minority hosts remind me of how demographic change is done deal. Also Air Force One did a fly by a while ago over the rocket.

 
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