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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: 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.