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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 canopic jug on Saturday January 25 2020, @12:00PM (1 child)
I could see a useful role for them in cleaning up space junk [imdb.com] and removing orbital litter. That would be useful in and of itself and good practice for when they need to take out all non-allied satellites, starting with the newest first, without kicking off the Kessler Syndrome.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 27 2020, @02:40PM
But then shouldn't they be called . . . Space Janitor Force!
And wear plain gray uniforms?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.