Yakuda
Verified User
As if I care what a jew hating raghead thinks of me.
Your favorite examples of government fraud, waste, and abuse: Post them here!
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T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
Well, that wouldn't be much of a thread now, would it?
moon
Satire for Sanity
The Trump Administration
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Senate Approps passes defense bill, blowing past budget caps
Senate appropriators recommending a 3.3% increase in defense spending signals that the bipartisan agreement on spending caps might be falling apart.
federalnewsnetwork.com
House Passes FY2025 Defense Appropriations Bill on Largely Partisan Lines
Posted: June 28, 2024 6:11 pm ET | Last Updated: June 28, 2024 6:18 pm ET | The House passed the FY2025 defense appropriations bill today. The total amount is held to a one-percent increase over FY2024 as required by the Fiscal Responsibility Act budget caps. The Space Force's budget is...
spacepolicyonline.com
The Trump Administration
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The whole thread would be blank.
ExpressLane
Verified User
If you think that is a waste you are nuts. We depend on space a lot and Russia and China are militarizing space. We can't afford to be left behind.
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anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Explanation?
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
Actually, a space force makes more sense than a separate air force. The USAF should be part of the US Army. After all the Air Force supports land warfare for the most part. The Space Force is supposed to fight in space. The Navy does sea warfare. That makes sense.
The USAF really doesn't have a separate job from the Army.
christiefan915
Catalyst
What has it done so far?
christiefan915
Catalyst
How much fighting in space is the US expecting to do?
The Trump Administration
Official
As much as we have to. Being unprepared seems unwise.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
Don't know but the likelihood of that is steadily increasing. The Space Force would also handle things like satellite reconnaissance and that sort of thing.
The Trump Administration
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christiefan915
Catalyst
I want to know what the Space Force does that hasn't been done before by other departments or branches.
I think that's an odd position to take by a party that wants to shrink government. I'm still looking for actuals costs but this is what they're spending money on.
"The five-year plan for establishing the Space Force includes creating a headquarters within the Pentagon (fiscal year 2020), transferring select missions and units to the USSF (FY 2021–2022), and eventually developing new ways to organize, train, and equip its forces (2023–2024).
In 2020, funding went towards the operation to establish its headquarters. This ramp up period allowed the USSF to establish the necessary “policies, procedures, and systems to operate.”
In 2021, funding expanded with the transfer of missions, forces, and programs that had been planned to begin one year after its establishment. This year’s budget included procurement as well as research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E), which constituted 67% of the total budget proposal. The 2024 budget request is similarly allocated with 64% of the Space Force budget covering RDT&E."
How much does the US spend on Space Force?
The first new branch of the US military since 1947, Space Force was established to protect the United States’ interests in space amid a growing spectrum of threats.
usafacts.org
christiefan915
Catalyst
Going by your other answer, maybe the Air Force could be expanded to do those things. IOW, somebody is doing all that now.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
They basically are an expansion of the A.F.
So if you’re against the space force why wouldn’t you be against the expansion of the A.F. that does the same thing?
You make no sense but whatever.
christiefan915
Catalyst
Because you wouldn't be using the same amount of money to expand an existing force than you would to start up a whole new one from scratch. You had your own business, it should be obvious to you.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
And should have remained that way.
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
No, they are not. A Space force would fight outside Earth's atmosphere in a separate theater of warfare. That is what should determine their being a separate service. The two planetary militaries are an army and navy. The army fights on land, the navy at sea--two distinct theaters of operation. In support both need air forces that can cover them from above. You take and hold the sky (atmosphere) by taking / controlling the land or water below it.