Donald Trump suggests U.S. may need to create a ‘space force’

Trump says that space is a “war fighting domain” and proposes a military “space force”.

President Donald Trump suggested creating a branch of the military for space during an appearance in San Diego, California, on Tuesday. Wilson said moving to EaaS also could help free up cyber workers in IT for defense and offense posts – something Air Force CIO Lt. Gen. Bradford Shwedo has discussed as well. “We wouldn’t have been going to Mars if my opponent had won”, Trump said to cheers from the approximately 1,000 service members assembled into a hangar at Miramar. “We can not allow that to happen”.

Defense News cited a source saying the Air Force actually kicked around the idea of freezing all interactions with media for 120 days, but opted instead for the retraining. “We may even have a “space force”-develop another one-space force”.

Moments before unveiling his idea for “Space Force”, Donald Trump announced the largest military build-up “since Ronald Reagan”, including $700 billion in defense funding this year and the highest pay raise in more than a decade.

A pentagon report submitted to Congress earlier this month floated the idea of Space Command becoming its own combatant command. In San Diego, the president was met by protesters and explained his doomsday fears of a country without a big wall: “For those people, if you don’t have a wall system, we’re not going to have a country”. You see what’s happening. ‘You’re getting them, brand new, right off the lot, ‘ he said. Very soon we are going to Mars.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk cut through the excitement surrounding future travel to Mars Monday, noting “it’s hard, dangerous”, and there’s a “good chance you will die”. “Nowhere is that leadership more clear than the president’s budget, which the chief and I are here to talk to you about today”. You wouldn’t even be thinking about it’. This includes creating a single organization in the Air Force that is responsible for space forces.

[Praising Marines in general, he listed some of the most famous ones, including…] “In 1962, when America needed a man to board a rocket, launch into space, and orbit the Earth for the first time we called on a Marine, the one and only John Glenn”.

He failed to mention the Coast Guard or the Marines. House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) has led the effort and has said he expects the transition will occur within three to five years.