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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 VLM on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:58PM
I was not in commo, but for obvious civilian professional reasons I kinda hung out with the commo guys when I was in the reserves, in a galaxy far far away a long time ago.
As they probably should, as they have zoom zoom airplanes as their primary mission. But somebody gotta run the satellites and the entire military was really getting into satellite uplink and downlink stuff and the system, although it was extremely mysterious, none the less worked per the guys I talked to. And there's just more and more military telecom as time goes on.
There really is a justification for some kind of "telecommunications rangers" or "special satellite forces" or WTF. There are "top down" orgs that put a lot of work into infosec securing army.gov and CAC cards and there are bottom up orgs like the NSA that like to do blue sky research into crypto algos, but there really isn't, or wasn't, an independent force dedicated to centralizing all the military's radio telecom and satellite stuff.
I would not be entirely surprised if these space force guys wedge themselves into the special forces comms slots, somehow. Guess what, you comms sgts with all this satellite uplink and datalink gear and stuff, you're now reporting to space forces... hence the camo uniforms.
My guess is as a long term doctrinal shift you're gonna see lots of reliance on satellite comms going right down to individual military member and individual vehicle in the future. Or even lower level. Like the now "old" blue force tracker system, but all IoT'd up, probably via unjammable satellites. Like I bet every crate of M-16 ammo and every grenade will be serial number GPS tracked world wide by satellite and RFID and similar.