Trump directs Pentagon to create 'space force'

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Trump directs Pentagon to create 'space force'
By Ellen Mitchell - 06/18/18 01:07 PM EDT


President Trump on Monday announced that he's directing the Pentagon to create a “space force” as the Defense Department’s sixth military service branch.

“In defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space,” Trump said during a meeting with members of the National Space Council.

“I’m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. That’s a big statement. We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal.”

The declaration follows statements made in March in which he endorsed the idea of creating an independent military branch for space.

“You know, I was saying it the other day — because we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space — I said, ‘Maybe we need a new force, we’ll call it the Space Force.’” Trump said during a speech to military personnel in San Diego.

Military officials, however, have been lukewarm on the idea in the past.

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http://thehill.com/policy/defense/392799-trump-directs-pentagon-to-create-space-force

[C_U_L8R]

1. Is this gonna be like Fantastic Voyage

where an intrepid team expires the infinite void between Trump's ears?

[vlyons]

2. Let's build a deathstar!

Just what the world needs to annihilate all our enemies - a Star Wars Death Star

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[cynatnite]

3. Don't take it seriously...

Congress has to approve the funds and I'm not sure if tRump has the power to create another branch of military. This is the cheetohead who said canceling military exercises would save money.

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[vlyons]

12. But Louis Gohmert (TX-01) has refused to fund

gay colonies on the moon. So there.

[Hortensis]

4. Guessing one of his phone chats was with Newt Gingrich.

We'll know it if he starts talking about sending colonists to farm Mars.

"He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” ~ Dear Leader

[matt819]

5. He has the mind of a 12-year-old

reading the inside back cover of comic books from the mic-1960s.

Sadly, this does not shock anymore.

[OregonBlue]

6. Wants his own cyber and space military?

[RainCaster]

7. Look, it's Haley's comet!

These are not the coluders you are looking for.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Space Cadet Bone Spurs!!

[sarcasmo]

9. Dr. Evil wants one million dollars for Space Force.

[anarch]

10. OK, fine. As long as we're doing that, I think we should declare Jupiter to be an enemy planet

There may or may not be some kind of life on some of those moons...so, you know, just to be on the safe side....

[Solly Mack]

11. And Ivanka will steal someone else's design for uniforms and call it her own

and charge the taxpayers 10k per uniform.

[struggle4progress]

13. Two little men in a flying saucer

[Mc Mike]

14. He's playing like he's JFK.