Another military branch? Space Force!

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I remember when "Hooah" was just becoming popular in the Army, the Air Force tried to copy it with "Air Power"...Not kidding....Then my super nerdy command staff wanted to change it and pushed us all to say "Air and Space Power"....still not kidding.
 
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GOPerfect said:
Many said years ago that it was a bad idea to separate the current Branches of the Military as well.

Many thought it too be a bad idea when the Air Force was made its' own entity.
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What is your opinion on the subject? I think it's wasteful and redundant. You only need 2 services. Ground forces and air and naval. I think we could save more money and have things run more smoothly without services tripping over one another if the Navy provided the sea and air and the Marines or Army provided the ground units.

Whether it should be the Marines or the Army is another discussion but having 2 ground forces is stupid. Often times you need liasons just for the 2 to be able to work together.
 
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What is your opinion on the subject? I think it's wasteful and redundant. You only need 2 services. Ground forces and air and naval. I think we could save more money and have things run more smoothly without services tripping over one another if the Navy provided the sea and air and the Marines or Army provided the ground units.

Whether it should be the Marines or the Army is another discussion but having 2 ground forces is stupid. Often times you need liasons just for the 2 to be able to work together.
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Are the Marines not part of the Navy? I always thought they were.
 
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The Marines are part of the Navy but they are used as conventional Army and the Army are used as Marines as well.

IE Marines in Afghanistan and Army storming beaches in Normandy.
 
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Libs were freaking out about this all over the place. If Obama had proposed it, it would be "oh, so progressive!". But we know how that goes

Personally I think its a good idea. At its most basic level it wouldn't be a bad idea to get some kind of defense system up there to tackle shit like rogue asteroids and whatnot. That could decimate the planet. More covert, wouldn't be a bad idea to have systems in place years ahead of other countries. Even if not necessarily in full operation still having decades of research could put us ahead in an arms race.
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Obit shut down as much as the space program as he could and changed its direction to social engineering.

Hijacked! How Obama and the Left Killed NASA: The journey from the Moon to radical activism
In a congressional hearing later the same month, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) took Garver’s agenda to task:

[Garver said that] NASA’s priorities are to ‘fight poverty, promote world peace and societal advancement, and protect the environment’; I’d suggest to you that Ms. Garver has completely lost sight of the core mission of NASA, which is to preserve and protect America’s leadership in manned space, manned and robotic space exploration; to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.
In 2011 Congress approved legislation forbidding NASA from working with Communist China. According to an official summary, Public Law 112-55, Title V, section 539, “prohibits the use of any NASA or [White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] funds to participate in any way in any program with China or any Chinese-owned company, unless specifically authorized by law.”

“We know that China is an active, aggressive espionage threat,” now-retired Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) has said. “I suspect that this focus on stealing space and flight-based technology explains at least some of the major advances that the Chinese space program has made over the past few years.”

The ideological war against NASA would resume if Garver were brought back under a new Democrat administration.

The Anti-Civilization Global Warming “Godfather”—with an Arrest Record

James Hansen was the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies until 2013. He became known as a taxpayer-funded activist for radical global warming theories and carbon taxes. Hansen used alarmist predictions of dramatic and unsubstantiated temperature and sea level increases to try to scare opponents into silence.
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Hijacked! How Obama and the Left Killed NASA: The journey from the Moon to radical activism


Garver left NASA in September 2013, but continued her battle against the space program by attacking the Space Launch System rocket and the next Mars rover. She belittled the rocket program by asking “where is it going to go?” After more than four years at NASA, she knew but perhaps disagreed: SLS will take Americans to the Moon and Mars.

In a briefing I attended in 2012, Garver spoke dreamily of NASA working closely with China’s military-led space program. Because of Garver’s and Bolden’s initial efforts towards cooperation with China, Congress was forced to outlaw any cooperation to prevent China from plundering our highest technology and using it against us in their military and undercutting American commercial space enterprises like Space X.
 
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