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Trump Calls for a 'Space Force' as Sixth Branch of the Military

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President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to “immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces” on Monday afternoon.
President Trump announces he is directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon “to immediately begin the process necessary to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces” https://t.co/MCwhwKcNck pic.twitter.com/UyiHY4G3YK
— CNN (@CNN) June 18,2018
The president emphasized that space “dominance” is necessary to completely defend the U. S. He promised that Americans would return to the moon, which hasn’t happened since 1972.
“This time, we will do more than plant our flag and leave our footprints,” Trump said . “We will establish a long-term presence.”
Trump said the permanent presence would be beneficial to the economy, in addition to being a foundation for a Mars mission. He also clarified that the branch would be “separate but equal” from the Air Force.
Doug Loverro, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, opposed the idea of a separate branch for space.
“Space is a different kind of domain than air,” Loverro told members of Congress at a hearing in March. “We don’t need to move it out of the Air Force in order to go ahead and create the space-smart civilian and military force that we need.”
Critics of the proposed force are claiming the announcement is a diversion tactic from the separation of children from their parents at the southwest border.
Focus on missing children.
Ignore “Space Force.”
This is what he does: distract.
Focus on the horror at the border.
Focus on Trump kidnapping and caging children.
Focus. #KeepFamiliesTogether #WhereAreTheBabies #WhereAreTheChildren
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) June 18,2018
The president continued by joking about “rich guys” loving rockets, and he said that if they beat the military to Mars, he’d be “very happy.”
“As long as it’s an American rich person, that’s good,” Trump said.
Brooklynn is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an intern for IJR Blue. In Chapel Hill, she began as a copy editor at the… more

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