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Trump Orders Establishment of Sixth Military Branch - Space Force
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Goro Daimon 71113
Neo Member
Go Trump GO!
Missed opportunity to call it the Space Marines. Many generations have been trained in the path of a Space Marine, so you likely wouldn’t be shy on volunteers for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, Spartan projects or soon to be battle brothers for Holy Terra.
I’ll also accept Space Rangers if their motto is “To infinity and beyond “.
I’ll also accept Space Rangers if their motto is “To infinity and beyond “.
Max Legroom
Banned
This one of Trump’s flashy announcements that will amount to nothing, like the NK stuff.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Those can easily be units within the overall Space Force.
rokkerkory
Member
With what $ do we fund this imaginary force?
TheShadowLord
Member
A good way to increase the military budget which may even cause an out of control budget.
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infinitys_7th
Member
Sounds like a MST3k movie.
But, seriously, if this makes the DoD budget bloat go towards something worthwhile, I'm all for it. Better to build orbital solar cannons or a mass driver on the moon and get technology from (solar power satellites and lunar-intermediate site) that than to keep "saving" the ME from the people we gave it to the last time we "saved" it.
Unfortunately, the budget will probably go on top of the current one, rather than carve out a chunk of it :/
But, seriously, if this makes the DoD budget bloat go towards something worthwhile, I'm all for it. Better to build orbital solar cannons or a mass driver on the moon and get technology from (solar power satellites and lunar-intermediate site) that than to keep "saving" the ME from the people we gave it to the last time we "saved" it.
Unfortunately, the budget will probably go on top of the current one, rather than carve out a chunk of it :/
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Imaginary money.
bucyou
Member
mexico is paying for it, so pesos
Musky_Cheese
Banned
Wake me when you need me.
InterMusketeer
Gold Member
I don't know, but Space Force sounds pretty cool, so that's probably mission accomplished for Trump.
Musky_Cheese
Banned
Republic Credits
Papa
Banned
I don't think enough time has passed for you to say that. Time will tell whether the North Korea stuff amounts to anything, although I would argue that Kim crossing the DMZ and shaking Moon's hand, returning hostages, and even meeting with a US president at all amounts to something.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
NASA and Space Force will probably be merged
TheShadowLord
Member
America is totally going to reach $1T annually for their military budget sooner than most expected.
Taxes! Cut a few million from education, health, and social welfare, reallocate to military on top of a few billions. Call it balancing the budget and being fiscally conservative!
Taxes! Cut a few million from education, health, and social welfare, reallocate to military on top of a few billions. Call it balancing the budget and being fiscally conservative!
The Sane Psycho
Banned
Except North Korea is denuclearizing as we speak, and he possibly prevented a war with NK that people were predicting was going to happen. Try again.
I don't agree with everything the guy does (going after violent video games in the aftermath of Parkland, trying to replace food stamps with MREs and food boxes), but I like Trump overall and I love his "America first" approach. Many far leftists call it racist or xenophobic. I see it as a man who cares about his country. A good leader should strive to put their own country before others.
Chairman Tickles
Banned
Looks like we will see the rapid militarization of near earth orbit. Russia already has toys ready (fractional orbital bombardment ICBMs that can be deposited to and sit in orbit indefinitely) and China has mastered targeting of satellites at all altitudes. What will US do? Create a military base on the moon with a healthy nuke contingent?
Looks like we will get our space battles earlier than we thought. First one to colonize and exploit Mercury wins the space wars.
Looks like we will get our space battles earlier than we thought. First one to colonize and exploit Mercury wins the space wars.
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Max Legroom
Banned
If you believe NK is denuclearizating I’d like to interest you in some prime Florida real estate. The only war he prevented is one he almost started.
Chairman Tickles
Banned
Rest assured north korea will never give up its nuclear arsernal. But this latest situation can be used to spin north korea into a non issue, by making it a neutral or even semi-friendly state. Then it doesn't matter that it has nukes.
5secondrulesucks
Banned
hell yeah thats the kind of shit i wanna see
7he Talon
Member
Little Chicken
Member
"It’s like the Army and the Navy, but for space"
Hahaha what a moron.
Hahaha what a moron.
Sakura Doritos
Member
Finally we going to have a live action reality tv, Americanized Wings of Honnêamise. Begun has the second great meme war.
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5secondrulesucks
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bitbydeath
Gold Member
You gotta give credit for getting it this far though even if it does fall through, it's still a lot better than doing nothing and getting nowhere as previous presidents had accomplished.
People need to really stop picking sides and work together to get things done. Trying to hold back positives because of a grudge of it not being your team in play is just plain silly.
Dev1lXYZ
Member
The militarization of space has been going on behind the scenes for decades. The Navy and Air Force are quite vested in it already. What We see happening now is what happened when the Army Air Corps became the US Air Force- a consolidated new branch that will officially merge the pieces into a whole.
TheLaughingStock
Member
You'd do it with US $s just like anything else. And you've got an army of unemployed. I'd rather them mess around in space than sit at home depressed or on welfare. Hopefully space marines make good money.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
I don't know, a Space Force would be a necessity eventually, wouldn't it? Why not get ahead of the curve?
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Does that mean more money into military?
BTW nothing wrong against space marines, wars will eventually happen in space (not matter what leftists believe about - "if USA won't move towards military in space, no other countries will do that either")
BTW nothing wrong against space marines, wars will eventually happen in space (not matter what leftists believe about - "if USA won't move towards military in space, no other countries will do that either")
King of Foxes
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VulcanRaven
Member
This was my first thought when hearing about this:
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
This is a critical need if we become involved in a conflict with a need peer adversary.
Right now the Air Force covers it but it may not be a bad idea to start the framework of how a dedicated branch would function.
Right now the Air Force covers it but it may not be a bad idea to start the framework of how a dedicated branch would function.
rokkerkory
Member
Where will that $ come from since we are 1T per year under water now.
flibbertyjibbert
Banned
money is just made up BS anyway. sure the fed can magic a few gazillion into existence for real life starship troopers
Bolivar687
Banned
Wag the dog.
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I mean ultimately this kind of a military would be necessary in the future. I don't think it's stupid or silly to start laying the foundation for how that branch of the military would exist and what it would be made up of.
It doesn't really ring as a priority right now, but some things aren't really priorities until you need them...and in the instance of a space military, you can't exactly stand one up "when you need it" because it would be too late.
This doesn't really make me feel one way or another, I feel like I know it comes across as stupid or pointless, and maybe he has no real plan on how to implement one or funding to actually start one...but I don't think it's a dumb idea, and I don't think it's something you could really sit on for a long time.
Nows as good a time to start thinking about it as any, but I get why the general public would view this as shitty timing or a sign of shit priorities.
It doesn't really ring as a priority right now, but some things aren't really priorities until you need them...and in the instance of a space military, you can't exactly stand one up "when you need it" because it would be too late.
This doesn't really make me feel one way or another, I feel like I know it comes across as stupid or pointless, and maybe he has no real plan on how to implement one or funding to actually start one...but I don't think it's a dumb idea, and I don't think it's something you could really sit on for a long time.
Nows as good a time to start thinking about it as any, but I get why the general public would view this as shitty timing or a sign of shit priorities.
rokkerkory
Member
We have to stop all the illegal ALIENS from space that are trying to immigrate to the US!
manfestival
Member
Holy crap we are finally gonna have real life space marines. What a time to be alive.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
Sign me up, Scotty.
womfalcs3
Banned
Not without making the currency less valuable.
camelCase
Member
Spacebucks ofc