From concept to command: Celebrating 5 years of the US Space Force

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-21 04:37:20 | Updated at 2024-12-21 06:58:51 2 hours ago

From concept to command: Celebrating 5 years of the US Space Force
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) ^ | Dec. 9, 2024 | By Keefer

Posted on 12/20/2024 8:11:49 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- The U.S. Space Force officially turns five years old Dec. 20th.

The sixth branch of the U.S armed forces was established on Dec. 20, 2019, when PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.

Under this act, Air Force Space Command, headquartered at then-Peterson Air Force Base, ceased space operations, was inactivated and the USSF assumed operational control of the space units previously commanded by AFSPC. From there, the Space Force moved forward with building and defining the new service while simultaneously maintaining legacy missions and infrastructure.

In the intervening years since its creation, the USSF has built a space-focused cadre, pulling together ideas and expertise from sister services and promoting the transfer of enlisted and officers experienced in space operations, cyber, intelligence, acquisition and engineering.

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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Have they done anything yet?
Not a criticism, just a question.

2 posted on 12/20/2024 8:15:17 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )

To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Pickup line in bar to young woman.

In the Space Force we like to go where no man has gone before.

3 posted on 12/20/2024 8:15:58 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

To: Jonty30

What sort of answer are you expecting?

4 posted on 12/20/2024 8:16:10 PM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )

To: Jonty30

Uh, have you noticed any “drone” activity in the night sky?
Space Force. Version of the National Guard training sessions on weekends.

5 posted on 12/20/2024 8:19:06 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

They seem to be very stoic, I have never heard one complain about the MREs or inadequate sleeping bags.

6 posted on 12/20/2024 8:22:21 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))

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7 posted on 12/20/2024 8:22:36 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)

To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

We need an Academy for the Space Cadets.

8 posted on 12/20/2024 8:28:54 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)

To: fishtank

9 posted on 12/20/2024 8:31:13 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))

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