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Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform:
The official Twitter account of the month-old military service posted[*] a teaser photograph Friday night appearing to show a variant of the Operational Camouflage Pattern used by the Army and Air Force.
Above the left breast pocket in Navy embroidery reads: U.S. Space Force.
[...] The uniform depicts four-star rank, indicating that the uniform belongs to Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, the first commander of U.S. Space Force. It also has the Command Space Operations badge embroidered above the service nametape.
On the left sleeve of the uniform is the United States Space Command patch, denoting the military's newest combatant command, formed shortly before Space Force itself activated Dec. 20. And above that patch is a full-color American flag patch -- a departure from the muted flags that soldiers and airmen typically wear on their right shoulders in OCP uniform.
Many questions remain. Space Force has yet to announce a rank structure, a full system of uniforms or even what to call members of the new service. In a Thursday briefing, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Raymond was developing a plan regarding every detail.
[*] https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1218335200964464650
(Score: 4, Informative) by Unixnut on Friday January 24 2020, @10:27PM (6 children)
> I'm happy that the US military is focusing more on space. Beats finding new ways to blow people up. With that huge budget, maybe they can make some non-destructive progress.
Its the US military. If anything, they are going to work (and spend money) on finding even more new ways to blow people/things up, either in or from space. "non destructive" doesn't really fit with what the military is about.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday January 24 2020, @10:37PM (2 children)
They used to explore [wikipedia.org], too.
(Score: 1) by j-beda on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:01PM (1 child)
We are talking about the US Military. I don't know that they have any history of exploration like the British did.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:39PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_of_Discovery [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 24 2020, @10:40PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command [wikipedia.org]
Space Force has been around since 1982. It just wasn't a service branch.
They will probably try to find new ways to blow up satellites or prevent them from being blown up.
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(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday January 24 2020, @11:07PM
I'm imagining that the US and China could have a race toward claiming sovereignty on Mars. If they blow each other up in space, it's a good way to vent some anger. Beats having a hot war on Earth.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:15AM
Actually, it fits with what many military services over the years have done: Cause the least amount of destruction to achieve whatever the mission is.
Does that always happen? Nope, there are lots of counterexamples, punitive destructions and scorched-earth objectives abound.
But in Army basic training in the late 80s I still remember a lecture on movement and our First Sergeant asking us why we as soldiers should stick to established paths and not tramp all over the grounds and grasses. We suggested the right answers of not giving away our position to easy tracking, our numbers, making more noise in movement. And then he looked back and said, "Yes. All right answers. But how about also 'Preserving the environment?' As soldiers you have the responsibility to not cause unnecessary destruction, as well, and that includes the environments you travel in." Still haven't forgotten that over 30 years later.
Knowing how to destroy things, to a intelligent human, also means learning when to spare things as well.