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 Saturday January 25 2020, @01:41AM
It is technically a part of the Department of the Air Force, like how the Marines are part of the Department of the Navy. There may be more clear benefits to the re-establishment of U.S. Space Command. There will probably be better recruitment and visibility for the new Space Force (formerly Air Force Space Command).
You can check out editorials promoting Space Force:
Why the United States needs a Space Force [spacenews.com]
The Case for a U.S. Space Force [soylentnews.org]
Advocates think it will save money (maybe that is what USSPACECOM is doing by consolidating stuff), and that the Air Force just doesn't handle the "domain" properly. For example:
That sounds like it will drive up spending though.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]