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President Donald Trump, during a speech at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, near San Diego California, on Tuesday May 8, 2018, said his new national security strategy recognizes that space is a theater of war, and he floated the idea of creating a Space Force, a branch of the military that would operate outside of earth's atmosphere.
"Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea," Trump told an audience of service members at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. "We may even have a Space Force, develop another one, Space Force. We have the Air Force, we'll have the Space Force.
The president originally joked about creating a "Space Force", while discussing the United States government's spending and private investments in space. "I said, 'maybe we need a new force, we'll call it the Space Force,' and I was not really serious. Then I said, 'what a great idea,' maybe we'll have to do that," Trump told the crowd of attentive Marines.
"So think of that, Space Force," Trump continued, "because we are spending a lot and we have a lot of private money coming in, tremendous. You saw what happened the other day, and tremendous success. From the very beginning, many of our astronauts have been soldiers and air men, coast guard men and marines. And our service members will be vital to ensuring America continues to lead the way into the stars."
No one was sure if the president was still joking by the time he finished his non scripted portion of his speech talking about a Space Force. The White House would not respond to comment. Certainly Sarah Huckabee-Smith will be addressing this soon.
It should be noted that Trump is not the only political leader in Washington who has brought up the idea of a Space Force. In June of 2017, a contingent of House lawmakers proposed dividing the Air Force into two separate branches, one dedicated to aviation and a second, new branch dedicated to solely to space. Language to create a new military branch called the Space Corps did not make it into the final national defense authorization bill in November, but there were several new directives included in the legislation that could facilitate the Space Corps plan in the future.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., is the biggest Congressional supporter of a militarized space branch, he has said these directives represent progress. "This is just the first step. We will not allow the United States national security space enterprise to continue to drift toward a space Pearl Harbor."
Is this actually the first steps to bring the Secret Space Force forward into the public's eye? Many already speculate that there are battles going on right now in space that may effect the future of humanity. Many believe they have been conscripted into becoming a part of this secret space force. We will keep watching and report what we find through the mainstream or the alt-news channels.
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This would be the 6th branch.
1. Army
2. Navy
3. Marines
4. Coast Guard
5. Air Force
6. Space Force