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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:03 PM Jun 2018

Trump announces he's directing Pentagon to create 'space force' as independent service branch.




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
that will piss off the Air Force... Thomas Hurt Jun 2018 #1
How does he think nukes get to their destinations?! lunatica Jun 2018 #2
Another spigot from which to drain the treasury. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2018 #3
Exactly, Space Swamp draining into Trumpy & Company's pockets. FSogol Jun 2018 #10
They are really picking up the pace now. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2018 #14
Squirrel! nt Xipe Totec Jun 2018 #4
Trading one type of alien for another ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #7
I'm not doing my part for the KGOP kristofascist republican kakistocracy, Inc. (R) Achilleaze Jun 2018 #5
What a fucking idiot! smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #6
The generals in charge of the USAF Space Command are going to be pissed. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2018 #8
The international response to this will not be pretty. sunonmars Jun 2018 #9
The First Official Duty Of This Space Force Is To..... global1 Jun 2018 #11
Someone should make him aware of the 1967 Outer Space treaty Takket Jun 2018 #12
So how do we get astronauts into space today? yallerdawg Jun 2018 #13
And, of course, there will have to be a service academy. cloudbase Jun 2018 #15
DISTRACTION. n/t kacekwl Jun 2018 #16
Yay! Gundams! ornotna Jun 2018 #17

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
2. How does he think nukes get to their destinations?!
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:09 PM
Jun 2018

Our armed forces are already in space. Satellites galore spying on everyone including us.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. I'm not doing my part for the KGOP kristofascist republican kakistocracy, Inc. (R)
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:12 PM
Jun 2018

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.

8. The generals in charge of the USAF Space Command are going to be pissed.
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:19 PM
Jun 2018
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.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
13. So how do we get astronauts into space today?
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:38 PM
Jun 2018

Never mind the incoherence when someone is full of shit.


Soyuz in Kazakhstan. Dominance my ass.

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