Trumps Space Force

As quoted by the atlantic he stated the following.

Trumps space force. President trump on monday announced that he was directing the creation of a space force as a sixth service adding to the army navy air force marine corps and coast guard. It is not enough to merely have an american presence in space we must have american dominance in space trump said at a meeting of the national space council. On monday morning president donald trump who is currently being hospitalized at walter reed medical center for covid 19 sent a series of all caps tweets urging. Space force among other things.

In signing the 2020 national defense authorization act that includes the force trump claimed a. The act signed by trump also creates a new senior military post to oversee the space force a chief of space operations who will also eventually sit on the joint chiefs of staff joining their. Trump s twitter spree began with fox friends but became a series of simple all caps posts urging people to vote over issues like space force i m voting for donald trump. It s the sixth branch of the u s.

My father is a. President trump outlined the genesis of the united states space force project in an address to a group of marines in march 2018. Armed services and the first new military. When president trump signed a 738 billion defense spending bill on friday he officially created the space force.

The air force is preparing to transfer 11 billion worth of its space related programs to the space force in fiscal 2021 according to an internal memo. When he first made his pitch for an.