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In reply to the discussion: I would not be surprised if they move to [View all]Seinan Sensei
(1,651 posts)There are eight Uniformed Services. Six are considered Military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force). The other two Uniformed Services are NOAA and US Public Health Service.
All who join and serve in these eight Uniformed Services are considered active duty. All members of Uniformed Services, for example, can become eligible for VA benefits.
Project 2025 believes NOAA should be broken up and downsized." As in dissolved and privatized.
Why? Three reasons.
...1) follow the money. Project 2025 wants to fully commercialize NOAAs forecasting operations." That is, Project 2025 wants to charge for popular and necessary weather-related services that now are free through NOAA. Somebodys gonna get rich if MAGA co-opts NOAA materials and services.
...2) Project 2025 believes NOAAs scientific approach runs counter to Project 2025s climate-change narrative. Project 2025 sees NOAA as a primary component of the climate change alarm industry." Project 2025 wants NOAA to become "performance-based (read: NOT science-based ). Project 2025 wants NOAA to be held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of NOAA must "deviate from government rules" (read: fudge the numbers ) to achieve MAGA-friendly results.
...3) This is MAGAs foot-in-the-door toward privatizing the six Military Services -- If thy can do it to NOAA, they can do it to Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force. Voila! TSFs own private military.
A far cry from the days when I played with plastic soldiers from the five-and-dime.