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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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www.independent.co.uk

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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millais said:
"Separate but equal" is the common paraphrasing of Plessy vs Fergusson, the infamous US Supreme Court case that upheld segregation. How long before the anti-Drumpf nut jobs start harping on about that?
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/trump-space-force-air-force/index.html
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The term "separate but equal" became a legal precedent following an 1896 Supreme Court ruling Plessy v. Ferguson that said the use of racially separate facilities, if equal, was not discrimination. That legal rationale was deemed unconstitutional through a series of Supreme Court decisions, ending with 1954's Brown v. Board of Education.
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Plessy was rightly decided and Brown was a mistake btw
 
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Best timeline is right on track.
 
Piss Clam said:
Actually modern bullets will fire in space.

https://www.livescience.com/18588-shoot-gun-space.html
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Now see, why you gotta be like that? Here I am, getting all excited about us getting laser guns and you just gotta take the fun out of everything you freaking mollusk.

...unless you're already in cahoots with the space bugs and trying to prevent us in developing weapon technology which can penetrate their alien arthopodic carapaces, allowing us at a strategic disadvantage when they try to Zerg Rush our beloved Space Force!!

(seriously though, good to know.)
 
We will go to the moon and the other things not because it's easy but because I don't want any goddamn illegal aliens ruining our beautiful country.
 
Realistically this is pretty dumb, since it just adds a new layer of complexity to the already existing US operations in space (which is mostly Air Force along with some Navy), meaning more taxpayer money and more bureaucracy which gets in the way of efficiency. It would be like having an air force back in the 19th century when only balloons and airships existed. There are better ways of increasing US presence in space.
 
Well, someone will have to keep checks and balances on Musk and his Martian sweatshops. I'm sure he believes he'll double his net worth because OSHA can't reach the tablet factories buried under Olympus Mons.
 
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