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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump announces he's directing Pentagon to create 'space force' as independent service branch.
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NEW: Pres. Trump says he is directing the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to "establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces."
"We must have an American dominance in space." http://abcn.ws/2hFejwL
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Good Holy fuck, did someone put Starship Troopers on the DVD and fuckwit had a thought......
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Trump announces he's directing Pentagon to create 'space force' as independent service branch. (Original Post)
sunonmars
Jun 2018
OP
I'm not doing my part for the KGOP kristofascist republican kakistocracy, Inc. (R)
Achilleaze
Jun 2018
#5
The generals in charge of the USAF Space Command are going to be pissed.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Jun 2018
#8
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. that will piss off the Air Force...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)2. How does he think nukes get to their destinations?!
Our armed forces are already in space. Satellites galore spying on everyone including us.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)3. Another spigot from which to drain the treasury.
These moves are all of a piece.
FSogol
(45,532 posts)10. Exactly, Space Swamp draining into Trumpy & Company's pockets.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)14. They are really picking up the pace now.
They make me sick, too.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)4. Squirrel! nt
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)7. Trading one type of alien for another
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. I'm not doing my part for the KGOP kristofascist republican kakistocracy, Inc. (R)
as it stomps its ugly boots hither and yon at the whim of Comrade Casino, the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
Instead I'll be doing the decent, honest, and honorable thing: My part is supporting the USA.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)6. What a fucking idiot!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,600 posts)8. The generals in charge of the USAF Space Command are going to be pissed.
http://www.afspc.af.mil/
Their jobs will be absorbed by the new organization. We will have the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Space Command as four separate branches of the military. Donnie Two Scoops will have accomplished the unthinkable -- he will have militarized space, which until now has only been used for surveillance.
What Dotard wants to do is militarize space, which will start a global "cold war." How would you feel having nuclear missiles orbiting less than 200 miles over your country, ready to deploy at a moment's notice. At least with land-based ICBMs there's about a 20 minute period between launch detection and impact. At 200 miles, we're talking about less than two minutes.
It looks like Reagan's dream of taking the military into space is going to be fulfilled, bigly.
Their jobs will be absorbed by the new organization. We will have the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Space Command as four separate branches of the military. Donnie Two Scoops will have accomplished the unthinkable -- he will have militarized space, which until now has only been used for surveillance.
What Dotard wants to do is militarize space, which will start a global "cold war." How would you feel having nuclear missiles orbiting less than 200 miles over your country, ready to deploy at a moment's notice. At least with land-based ICBMs there's about a 20 minute period between launch detection and impact. At 200 miles, we're talking about less than two minutes.
It looks like Reagan's dream of taking the military into space is going to be fulfilled, bigly.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)9. The international response to this will not be pretty.
global1
(25,278 posts)11. The First Official Duty Of This Space Force Is To.....
explore the space between Trump's ears.
Takket
(21,639 posts)12. Someone should make him aware of the 1967 Outer Space treaty
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)13. So how do we get astronauts into space today?
Never mind the incoherence when someone is full of shit.
Soyuz in Kazakhstan. Dominance my ass.
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)15. And, of course, there will have to be a service academy.
Starfleet Academy.
kacekwl
(7,022 posts)16. DISTRACTION. n/t
ornotna
(10,807 posts)17. Yay! Gundams!