<div dir="ltr">And all the students at their military academy will be "space cadets!"  Lol!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:33 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_8318134011484303382WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.<wbr>extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg<br><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Should the US Have a Military Presence in Space?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5b5b5b">Does the United States need a Space Force branch of the military?  And can we afford to have one?</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:#5b5b5b">"Presi</span>…<span style="color:#5b5b5b"> call this week that to create a sixth branch of the U.S. military — </span></span><a href="https://www.space.com/40921-trump-space-traffic-policy-american-leadership.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0099cc;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">which he called the "Space Force"</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5b5b5b"> — has reopened a wider debate about whether such a move is necessary to better manage military space activities. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">…</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/62868-trump-space-force-debate.html" target="_blank">https://www.livescience.com/<wbr>62868-trump-space-force-<wbr>debate.html</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It does make one wonder what their boot camp would be like, and why.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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