Posted on Jun 19, 2018
What’s your opinion on a Space Force? Will it be successful?
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President Trump has mentioned about creating a sixth military branch to solely focus on space defense and deal with extraterrestrials. What’s your take on it and will it be successful?
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You're basically reinventing NASA under the DOD umbrella and budget. To get the minds that you'd likely need to populate such a force, you're going to be handicapping other branches. You're also going to likely have to make a completely different pay scale to attract and keep the type of people that this would require, or at least offer some very lucrative incentives.
Honestly, I think if this does happen it should either be a revamp of the USAF Space Command or a sub-department like the USMC is to the USN.
Honestly, I think if this does happen it should either be a revamp of the USAF Space Command or a sub-department like the USMC is to the USN.
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MSgt Tony Marlin
So how will differ from the USAF's Space Command that already exist???? I wonder if he even knows it exists and what their mission is.
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MSgt Tony Marlin I think the intended concept is basically NASA run by the military with the addition of space shuttle door gunners.
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MAJ (Join to see)
So much ignorance here.
SGT Barrie wasn’t too far off.
Chairman Rodgers of the HASC Subcommittee on Strategic Affairs actually put a Space Corps into last year’s NDAA Bill, which would have been under Department of the AF.
This is not a revamp of AFSPC, it’s intended to be Joint.
Either we’ll get a Sub-Unified Command or a Unified (Combatant) Command.
ALL the services have Space professionals. And NONE of them “go to Space”. In the Army we’re called Functional Area 40 (MOS 40A).
SGT Barrie wasn’t too far off.
Chairman Rodgers of the HASC Subcommittee on Strategic Affairs actually put a Space Corps into last year’s NDAA Bill, which would have been under Department of the AF.
This is not a revamp of AFSPC, it’s intended to be Joint.
Either we’ll get a Sub-Unified Command or a Unified (Combatant) Command.
ALL the services have Space professionals. And NONE of them “go to Space”. In the Army we’re called Functional Area 40 (MOS 40A).
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COL John McClellan
In June 2017, the United States House Committee on Armed Services (HASC) voted to include language creating the U.S. Space Corps in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.[8] The new service would be administered by the United States Secretary of the Air Force, much as how the Marine Corps falls under the Department of the Navy, and guarantee it an equal seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[9]
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I'm quite interested to know more details about what specific known or emergent threats are prompting this decision...I mean, I can fly...I'm a pilot
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