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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 DannyB on Friday January 24 2020, @11:01PM (8 children)
I'll add it to my list of pole questions.
What to call members of US Space Force?
* Spacemen (spacepersons)
* Rocketeers
* Space Cadets
* Spaced Out
* Other (please specify in comments)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @11:49PM (5 children)
Geeks
Unlike the other forces, physical strength has no advantage and every task *is* ‘rocket science’
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:43AM (4 children)
>Unlike the other forces, physical strength has no advantage and every task *is* ‘rocket science’
If they ever have to board crewed enemy spacecraft, this won't be true.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:27AM
Similar thoughts here. In space, great strength *may be* less of an advantage than in a gravity well. But, there will always be things that are easier if you have a little brawn on your side. That old classic ninety pound weakling will still be a weakling in space.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 27 2020, @02:45PM (2 children)
But the enemy spacecraft may have a completely different atmosphere than humans breathe.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 29 2020, @01:40AM (1 child)
I'm not talking about alien starships, I'm talking about other human vessels. If aliens from other star systems ever attacked us, we'd be toast: their technology would be so far ahead of ours that we wouldn't stand a chance.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 29 2020, @02:51PM
Bu, bu, but . . .
Space Force!
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:13AM
"Names Barf!"
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:47PM
Operators. Most of the folks will be baby sitting and coordinating comsats and generally hanging out in operations centers of one form or another.