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Trump Signs Directive to Create a Military Space Force




The Space Force just took a big step from sci-fi-sounding dream toward reality.

President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4 (SPD-4) today (Feb. 19),
ordering the Pentagon to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the
United States military, to go along with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and
Coast Guard.

But the Space Force still has a big hoop to jump through: Congress must approve
the creation of any new military branch.

The main goal of the Space Force is to secure and extend American dominance of
the space domain, Trump and other White House officials have said...

https://www.space.com/president-trump-s ... ctive.html

It's really the Space Corps, like the Marine Corps, in that it serves under the Air Force with its own chief of staff but not its own civilian leadership. This is what was proposed by Rep Mike Rogers (Ala) two years ago, but our felon in chief got a bug up his ass and decided he wanted a Space Force. It may become a "Space Force" some day, but it's not one now.