US Space Force deploys to vast new frontier: Arabian Desert

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The newly formed U.S. Space Force is deploying troops to a vast new frontier: the Arabian Peninsula. Space Force now has a squadron of 20 airmen stationed at Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment. The force, pushed by President Donald Trump, represents the sixth branch of the U.S. military and the first new military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947.

It has provoked skepticism in Congress, satire on Netflix, and, with its uncannily similar logo, “Star Trek” jokes about intergalactic battles.

“The missions are not new and the people are not necessarily new,” Col. Todd Benson, director of Space Force troops at Al-Udeid, told The Associated Press. That troubles some American lawmakers who view the branch, with its projected force of 16,000 troops and 2021 budget of $15.4 billion, as a vanity project for Trump ahead of the November presidential election.

Benson declined to name the “aggressive” nations his airmen will monitor and potentially combat.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/09/21/us-space-force-deploys-to-vast-new-frontier-arabian-desert/

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1. The must be wargaming against Uranus.

That is how I felt after my last colonoscopy.

Trump vanity branch is exactly right. The whole issue has been subjected to a lot of joking because it is a joke. A multi billion dollar joke on the American People.