PDA

View Full Version : Trump: Administration 'seriously thinking' about adding 'Space Force' to military




Zippyjuan
05-02-2018, 04:33 PM
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/385697-trump-administration-seriously-thinking-about-adding-space-force-to-military

Expand the war on illegal aliens?


President Trump on Tuesday said his administration is “seriously thinking” about creating a new military branch known as the “Space Force.”

“You will be part of the five proud branches of the United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and the Coast Guard. And we’re actually thinking of a sixth, and that would be the Space Force,” Trump said in the White House Rose Garden while presenting the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the Army football team.

“Does that make sense?" he asked. "You probably haven’t even heard that. I’m just telling you now because we’re getting very big in space, both militarily and for other reasons. And we are seriously thinking of the Space Force."

Trump in March first pushed for the idea of creating a new military branch that would specialize in fighting and policy in space.

“You know, I was saying it the other day — because we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space — I said, 'Maybe we need a new force, we’ll call it the Space Force.' And I was not really serious, and then I said, 'What a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that. That could happen,'” Trump said during a speech at Air Station Miramar in San Diego at the time.

The endorsement was met with mixed reactions from lawmakers.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), who last year led a failed effort with Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) to establish a space corps within the Air Force, praised Trump’s comments.

“Looking forward to working with [Trump] on this initiative!” Rogers wrote on Twitter.

But Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) — who last year opposed establishing a space corps — has said he’s not a fan of the proposal.

“I’m not too keen on ripping space out of the Air Force and creating a space corps,” Nelson said in March.

Despite the protests, lawmakers on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee are moving forward with a push to build up a space war fighting unit, as marked in its portion of the annual defense policy bill.

Though it would not be the separate military branch as floated by Trump, it would create a new numbered unit within the Air Force as well as a sub-unified command that would report to Strategic Command.

Air Force leaders, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford have already opposed a similar idea. Last year, they pushed back against a plan to create a separate space corps within the Air Force, warning it would be premature and add burdensome bureaucracy to the service.

pcosmar
05-02-2018, 04:44 PM
oh good. :rolleyes:

Another Nimrod wants war with God.

Origanalist
05-02-2018, 05:35 PM
oh good. :rolleyes:

Another Nimrod wants war with God.

Why do you hate America?

Danke
05-02-2018, 06:10 PM
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), who last year led a failed effort with Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) to establish a space corps within the Air Force, praised Trump’s comments.

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), sometimes referred to informally as U.S. Space Command, is a major command of the United States Air Force, with its headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

pcosmar
05-02-2018, 06:29 PM
Why do you hate America?

I graduated from space cadet to Space Ranger long ago.

I don't need them in my space.

Origanalist
05-02-2018, 06:34 PM
When the aliens invade we're going to need Danke to take command and save the planet.

enhanced_deficit
05-02-2018, 06:46 PM
This will be such important project, once started Mueller or any other FBI investigators obsessed with 'Russia collusion' or 'money-laundering' etc should not be allowed to distract POTUS.

phill4paul
05-02-2018, 07:31 PM
Perfect way to tie in Bernie Sanders "everyone a government employee." If Star Trek fans weren't such progressives they'd be having orgasims right now.

r3volution 3.0
05-02-2018, 07:39 PM
It is our manifest destiny to spend several hundred billion dollars filling near earth orbit with debris.

Origanalist
05-02-2018, 07:42 PM
Perfect way to tie in Bernie Sanders "everyone a government employee." If Star Trek fans weren't such progressives they'd be having orgasims right now.

I used to be a regular star trek watcher, I'm not getting a thrill down my leg.

phill4paul
05-02-2018, 07:51 PM
I used to be a regular star trek watcher, I'm not getting a thrill down my leg.

Old fuckers such as yourself probably watched it as a current weekly series. Young, virile and sexy adult males, such as myself, watched it on the late night analog sci-fi/creature feature channel as a re-run. And grew out of it when we discovered "sex, drugs and rock-n-roll." The "Trekkies?" Their a bit different from you and me.

r3volution 3.0
05-02-2018, 07:58 PM
Old fuckers such as yourself probably watched it as a current weekly series. Young, virile and sexy adult males, such as myself, watched it on the late night analog sci-fi/creature feature channel as a re-run. And grew out of it when we discovered "sex, drugs and rock-n-roll." The "Trekkies?" Their a bit different from you and me.

I'm also a "space enthusiast" (not a fan of Star Trek though), and this doesn't send a tingle up my leg either.

The exploration and ultimate economic exploitation of space can only be carried out by private enterprise.

This...is just paying Boeing obscene amounts of money to shoot horseshit into orbit which will later be an obstacle (debris) to real work.

Origanalist
05-02-2018, 07:58 PM
Old fuckers such as yourself probably watched it as a current weekly series. Young, virile and sexy adult males, such as myself, watched it on the late night analog sci-fi/creature feature channel as a re-run. And grew out of it when we discovered "sex, drugs and rock-n-roll." The "Trekkies?" Their a bit different from you and me.

You youngsters that never understood virility and much less ever had it couldn't possibly understand.

phill4paul
05-02-2018, 08:03 PM
I'm also a "space enthusiast" (not a fan of Star Trek though), and this doesn't send a tingle up my leg either.

The exploration and ultimate economic exploitation of space can only be carried out by private enterprise.

This...is just paying Boeing obscene amounts of money to shoot horseshit into orbit which will later be an obstacle (debris) to real work.

Pretty sure most of us know that. Which is why I tied it into Bernie Sanders "Government Jobs for all," bullshit.

nikcers
05-02-2018, 08:05 PM
I used to be a regular star trek watcher, I'm not getting a thrill down my leg.
This is highly debated - some people think star trek is about fascism.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4KBPaS-1PU

Some people see libertarianism


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRlzFIgm1E

phill4paul
05-02-2018, 08:08 PM
You youngsters that never understood virility and much less ever had it couldn't possibly understand.

I'm so viril I didn't have to castrate my pitt-bull. I just looked at him and his nuts dropped on the floor. Alpha is Alpha. It's not like I can just shut it off.

Origanalist
05-02-2018, 08:10 PM
This is highly debated - some people think star trek is about fascism.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4KBPaS-1PU

Some people see libertarianism


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRlzFIgm1E

In the name of full disclosure, I had never heard the term libertarian back then.

nikcers
05-02-2018, 08:19 PM
I'm so viril I didn't have to castrate my pitt-bull. I just looked at him and his nuts dropped on the floor. Alpha is Alpha. It's not like I can just shut it off.
Can you stop looking at China, you are making them paranoid


https://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20180502&t=2&i=1257885065&w=200&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXMPEE411YN (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-china-missiles/china-installs-cruise-missiles-on-south-china-sea-outposts-cnbc-report-idUSKBN1I336G)
China installs cruise missiles on South China Sea outposts: CNBC report (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-china-missiles/china-installs-cruise-missiles-on-south-china-sea-outposts-cnbc-report-idUSKBN1I336G)
China has installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three of its outposts in the South China Sea, U.S. news network CNBC reported on Wednesday, citing sources with direct knowledge of U.S. intelligence reports.

9:13PM EDT

phill4paul
05-02-2018, 08:28 PM
Can you stop looking at China, you are making them paranoid

China men fear my castrated pitt-bull. That's why I haven't seen them on my property. If they can't get past the pit-bull, the non-aggressive, can't hold his licker, hound, then why should I sweat it? Or why should they sweat me? If they would let me know what terminal to pick them up at CLT we might have a fine time together.

pcosmar
05-02-2018, 09:28 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-expanse.jpg

Been watching..

A lot closer than Star Trek.

brushfire
05-02-2018, 09:48 PM
I cant stop laughing... "we’re getting very big in space". Thank you hillary clinton, and the democrat party. The vote against hillary has led us to this freak show, may you all rot in hell.

Matt Collins
05-02-2018, 10:05 PM
This was predicted in the 1980's propaganda cartoon series "StarCom"... to be fair, it was a pretty cool cartoon and I do attribute it to a lot of my interest in space and aviation:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10oOpv3o0U4