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US planning to create sixth branch of armed forces: The 'Space Corps'
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:42 pm
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The House Armed Services Committee has voted to create a US "Space Corps", which would become a new branch of the armed forces and incorporate the current space missions of the US Air Force.
If the US Space Corps goes ahead, it would be the first new military service in the country since 1947.
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In response to the criticism, Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper, the top Republican and Democrat on the strategic forces subcommittee, said the dedicated space service had been mooted for years. “There’s been nothing shortsighted about this,” Rogers said according to a Federal News Radio report.
“We started working on it vigorously in September, and we’ve had countless meetings with a number of experts who have advised us as to how this should be construed. In fact, this idea for a space corps as one of the solutions to Air Force space came from the Rumsfeld Commission in 2001.
"GAO has done three studies on this, all of which tell us that you cannot maintain the current organisational construct of the Air Force and solve the acquisition problems and the operational problems that we have. The Air Force is like any other bureaucracy. They don’t want to change.”
Jim Cooper, the Democrat senator for Tennessee, argued the new space corps was important for US defence strategies. “We could wake up one morning and be blinded and deafened by adversary powers, because so many of our most precious assets are up in space.”
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:43 pm to GEAUXmedic
We need a Technology Force for computer warfare.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:44 pm to GEAUXmedic
Can't wait to watch my first alien cops episode.
This post was edited on 7/2/17 at 10:41 am
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:44 pm to GEAUXmedic
I hope they have Uranus covered.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:44 pm to GEAUXmedic
Sweet. Now US taxpayers can subsidize policing the known galaxy.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:46 pm to Brosef Stalin
Bet Bama schedules them
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:48 pm to OWLFAN86
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Bet Bama schedules them
:rimshot:
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:53 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Jim Cooper, the Democrat senator for Tennessee, argued the new space corps was important for US defence strategies.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:54 pm to GEAUXmedic
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The Air Force is like any other bureaucracy.
As soon as they start getting funded by the planets they protect, Pluto will regain its lofty status. #makemeaplanetagain
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:56 pm to GEAUXmedic
The governments armed forces suck butthole
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:57 pm to Geauxtiga
We need a Technology Force for computer warfare.
Tweet this to trump. I agree
Tweet this to trump. I agree
Posted on 7/1/17 at 8:59 pm to Geauxtiga
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We need a Technology Force for computer warfare.
Already have Cyber Command under control of the Air Force.
Lots of good they have done us. Apparently any teenager can hack us.
Posted on 7/1/17 at 9:03 pm to GEAUXmedic
Goddammit. My military experience was 15 years too early. I would totally have joined the fricking Space Corps.
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