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

    http://thehill.com/policy/defense/38...ce-to-military

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    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.



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    oh good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    oh good.

    Another Nimrod wants war with God.
    Why do you hate America?
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    Why do you hate America?
    I graduated from space cadet to Space Ranger long ago.

    I don't need them in my space.
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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    When the aliens invade we're going to need Danke to take command and save the planet.
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    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.



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    It is our manifest destiny to spend several hundred billion dollars filling near earth orbit with debris.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    I used to be a regular star trek watcher, I'm not getting a thrill down my leg.
    Old $#@!ers 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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    Old $#@!ers 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 horse$#@! into orbit which will later be an obstacle (debris) to real work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    Old $#@!ers 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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    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 horse$#@! into orbit which will later be an obstacle (debris) to real work.
    Pretty sure most of us know that. Which is why I tied it into Bernie Sanders "Government Jobs for all," bull$#@!.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    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.



    Some people see libertarianism


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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    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.



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    Quote Originally Posted by nikcers View Post
    This is highly debated - some people think star trek is about fascism.



    Some people see libertarianism

    In the name of full disclosure, I had never heard the term libertarian back then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    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


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    Quote Originally Posted by nikcers View Post
    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.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)



    Been watching..

    A lot closer than Star Trek.
    Last edited by pcosmar; 05-02-2018 at 09:31 PM.
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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    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.

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    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:



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