Sorry , everyone , it looks like Trump ’s estimate for an self-governing Space Force is on the chopping block . We do it how much you were looking forrard to it .
Trump ’s Space Force date stamp back to March 2018 , when the president said that he want to specify up asixth branchof the US military that focused completely on quad . A Space Force , if you will .
“ I was saying it the other day – because we ’re doing a tremendous amount of work in quad – I said , maybe we need a new effect . We ’ll call it the Space Force and I was not really serious , ” he sound out back then . “ And then I say , what a great idea . Maybe we ’ll have to do that . That could happen . ”
That go to myriad jokes and ahilarious videothat might just be the best affair that ’s occur in 2018 . Others pointed out that , you recognise , the Air Force already cover a peck of place activity . So why do we even need a Space Force ?
Trump was unperturbed , double down on the ideamultiple time . But alas , it seems to have now been quashed . Because accord to the website Defense One , there is n’t going to be a freestanding Space Force at all . If it happens , it ’s just going to become part of the Air Force . Which … is confusing , as the Air Force already does this .
They said that Pentagon officials had get off the idea because they were disturbed that it would n’t make it through Congress , which seems particularly unlikely now that the Democrats control the House surveil the mid - full term elections .
“ For calendar month , Pentagon officials have been rushing to prepare plans for an independent Space Force , a 6th subdivision of the military grade up by President Trump , ” saidDefense One . “ But since Oct. 26 , they have been marching to Modern White House orders : go back and look at different fashion to reorganize the military ’s space operations . ”
There are apparently a number of options for how it might operate and , whichever is picked , it may still be called the Space Force . But it look like the chance of an alone separate branch of the military machine , as Trump had requested , is increasingly slim .
So , a truthful autonomous Space Force may be dead in the water supply for now . But at least we ’ll also have that splendid , glorious video . Yes , I ’m linking to it again . I lie with it .
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