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Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force

posted by martyb on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the Space-Force-or-Space-Farce? dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

The Washington Post has an editorial by Vice President Pence, asking Congress to pass our National Defense Authorization Act for, or of 2020. Which will create a 6th branch of the United States military, called the United States Space Force. It's going to be part of the Air Force, but, this one won't be in the air. It will be in space. And there's no air, there. An excerpt:

Under this proposal, the Space Force would be within the Air Force, similar to the placement of the Marine Corps within the Navy. More than any other organization, the Air Force has been at the vanguard of building the world’s best military space programs. So, creating the Space Force within the Air Force is the best way to minimize duplication of effort and eliminate bureaucratic inefficiencies.

Just as the Air Force began within the Army before becoming a separate military department, so too will this first step in establishing the Space Force pave the way for a separate military department in the future. The Space Force is the next and the natural evolution of U.S. supremacy in space.

Also at Chicago Tribune.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:06PM (#809921)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:33PM (#809936)

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