Space Corps: Lawmakers Lay Groundwork for New Military Branch

HOLY FUCK IM MOVING TO THE US YEESS FUCK BEING IB LEAF MILITARY I WANNA BE SPACE WARRIOR

at last we can be space shuttle door gunners

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>IF THEY RUN, THEY'RE XENO SCUM
>IF THEY STAND STILL, THEY'RE WELL-DISCIPLINED XENO SCUM

>>34332235
Have fun tracking satellites all day.

>>34331715
>"The Space Corps would serve under the Department of the Air Force, similar to the Marine Corps which serves under the Department of the Navy."
>"There is bipartisan acknowledgement that the strategic advantages we derive from our national security space systems are eroding," said Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama and Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee in a statement. "We are convinced that the Department of Defense is unable to take the measures necessary to address these challenges effectively and decisively, or even recognize the nature and scale of its problems."
> If an adversary destroyed satellite networks, it could cripple communications and surveillance systems that the military depends on. Lawmakers and military commanders envision a future where space is much more accessible and crowded, and U.S. leaders worry that an adversary such as China or Russia could gain a strategic edge over the United States by establishing military capability in space first.
KILLING COMMIES IN SPACE, FIGHTING BETWEEN SATELLITES AND SPACE STATIONS

SIGN ME THE FUCK UP

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>mfw initially hype as fuck for this
>also mfw I then realize that I am now at the current ripe age for service, and will be too old to join when the program finally matures into existence

Bitter sweet to say the least

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Well I certainly wasn't expecting this today.

>>34332723
Join the Airforce and make yourself so useful, you get recruited into the program.

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It's been happening. Now we need to start training astrotroopers!

>>34332697
>KILLING COMMIES IN SPACE, FIGHTING BETWEEN SATELLITES AND SPACE STATIONS
>SIGN ME THE FUCK UP
Me too!

>>34331715
I want to be the first kid on the block after enlisting ad a space shuttle door Gunner confirmed kill!

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ITS HABBENING
G R O W O R D E C A Y
Let this be the dawn of a new era. It's time for astrocolonialism.

Thread theme: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06NegxrDSlQ

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>inb4 ayy lamo battle brides

>>34331715
.....wut...mfw 40k starts now

>>34331715
Fucking shit, should've joined the Airforce

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power armor when?

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>>34331715
Will they take me if I'm active duty army with space wings?

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Is it happening???

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>>34333325
>astrotroopers
Fucking nice

A new Defense Department seems a bit much, but I thought congress had its head way too far up its ass to address something like this.

>>34334234
why would you need the "power" part? you'd be able to wear a full suit of ar500 because you won't feel any of the weight bar momentum.

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>>34334356
>why would you need the "power" part?

>>34334260
Lower enlisted pogues need not apply.

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>Lawmakers and military commanders envision a future where space is much more accessible and crowded, and U.S. leaders worry that an adversary such as China or Russia could gain a strategic edge over the United States by establishing military capability in space first.

ZERO-G BOARDING ACTION

YOU ALL LAUGHED AT THE AIRFORCE.

WHO IS LAUGHING NOW.

YEAH, WE WILL SIT IN CHAIRS...... IN SPACE.

Enjoy eating dirt marines. Army is invited, except rangers.

>>34334234
The Army's been working on exoskeletons and environmental suits since the 90s at the Natick Labs. It'll happen sooner or later.

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>>34334464
STARGATE SG-/k/ SOON
P90s IN SPACE
REMOVE SNEK AND COMMUNIST

ODST Soon!

Feet first into hell!

>>34334464
I'm glad. Hearing about space Marines from Halo Duty all the time is fucking annoying. Let it be the Air Force Space Corps or whatever.

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>>34334464
>YEAH, WE WILL SIT IN CHAIRS...... IN SPACE.

Holy fuck I lost it.

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>>34334606
So... Space Corpsman? USSC?

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Party's over kids. The clown, has arrived.

>>34334785
jej

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>>34332236
YES

>>34331715
Did none of you fucks actually read this?
It's just going to be desk jockies and grease monkeys manning and maintaining satellites and maybe drones for the next couple decades at least.

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>>34334940
Don't kill the hype, man.

>>34334940
In other words
IT BEGINS

>>34331715
>DD-214, reenlistment code 4
Fuck.

But my fucked up spine wouldn't be a liability in 0g, right guys?

REMOVE BUGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk

>>34335315
Trouble is you have to pass through multiple gs getting there.

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I thought Air Force was the space force. Even though less than 4% of air force are pilots. And only 6% are fit, even according to Air Force regulations.

>>34332450
what possible application is there for door gunner astronauts

How long until LOIC's?

>>34332723
At least you're young enough to actually get in.

>>34332697
space ...... MARINES

>>34335509
Blowing holes in Chinese satellites

>>34335509
Humans in space suits weigh less than the mechanical systems you'd need to remote control the guns, and it's fucking hardcore.

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GAS THE AYYS

SPACE WAR NOW

>>34331715
Oooooooooooo fuck yes son. Moonbase when

>>34332723
Nano machines my nigga

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>>34331715
Their uniforms need to be completely gaudy and nonsensical or I'll feel cheated. Please, please let this all unfold like my japanese animes.

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>>34331715
>http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/news/a27030/lawmakers-lay-groundwork-for-space-corps-a-new-branch-of-the-military/

SOON LADS

>>34335778
Seriously doubt that.

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>tfw the only military jobs are just gonna be desk jockey shit
>tfw no private companies dueling it out over mineral rich asteroids and other space shit in the near future
>tfw you'll never get to play SS13 in real life and remove syndie scum from premises
it hurts, fellas
i just wanna be a /k/ommando on a spess station

>>34333325
>not just calling them Stormtroopers, Mobile Infantry, Space Marines just to piss people off, or Doomtroopers

Its like you dont want the space corps to just go balls-deep insane.

Hell they can wear the Star Wars imperial officer uniforms too.

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>>34331715
>Space Corps
>Air Force
REEEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING GOVERNMENT WASTING MY TAX DOLLARS REEEEEEEEEEE!

>>34338089
>not Warhammer 40k imperial officer uniforms

>>34338102
Save those for the space navy.

>Space 'Nam level
>Ground Control to Major Tom starts playing

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Friendly reminder that spess warfare will not be a thing until it is economically viable to send retards into space

>>34338162
Reusable rockets plus a few black ops SSTO designs get us there within 15 years.

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>>34337946
>i just wanna be a /k/ommando on a spess station

You gotta be robust enuff.

>you will never don a cardboard cutout mask of George Melons and operate on space chink syndies

>ZERO G TETHERED PATROLS
>ANTI-SATELLITE MANPADS
>TACTICAL GRAVITY OPERATING (enabling and disabling gravity to disorient)
>SLOTTING GOOKS AND PINKOS IN SPESS
>COMBAT TOURS IN ORBIT
>PRESSURIZED SPACE SUIT HAND TO HAND FIGHTING, SMASHING VISORS WITH BUTTSTOCKS AND PUNCTURING SUITS WITH BAYOS
>like anon mentioned above, SATELLITE BOARDING ACTION
>SURFACE TO ORBIT INSERTION OF QRFs
>SPACE COMBAT MERIT BADGES AND MEDALS
my god, just in time for Trump and Elon's Mars Colonization Plan

>>34338215
QUICK, SOMEONE POST THE MOSINS ON MARS SCREENCAP

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>>34338230
Gotcha, fampaiichi.

>>34332236
>freon cooled machine guns

mite be cool

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>we go to war with Russia and China in space
>everyone doesn't shoot at eachother and just hangs out in zero-g while command is screaming about court martials but we're too fucking busy playing zero g b-ball with Yao Ming and Andrei Kirilenko's descendants

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>>34338215
>yfw Low Earth Orbit boarding actions

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>>34338202

>>34338215
also forgot these:
>YOU THOUGHT RIDING HUEYS INTO JUNGLES WAS COOL? NOW IT'S RIDING ARMORED SHUTTLES INTO ORBIT
>SHUTTLES WITH COUNTERMEASURES AND 20MM VULCANS FOR SUPPORT AND AIMS FOR ANTI SHUTTLE

Shit gets even more crazy when you realize Satellites could potentially function as AWACS, troop transport shuttles, space stations are pretty much carriers for these shuttles but IN SPESS

>>34332670
this. It'll be Air Force 2.0

>>34338280
Don't forget Space Corps creating Fort Kennedy ON THE FUCKING MOON with mass drivers aimed at Moscow and Beijing.

>>34338261
Then we team up and build the Super Fun Russian Gun on the moon and point it at anything Chinese in space.

>>34338411
Or point it away from the planet to snipe approaching ayys like a planetary scale coastal fort and battery.

>>34337137
100 quadrillion galaxies worth of clay and aliens to annex.

Greatest country in the universe confirmed.

>>34338444
honestly, i think we should build at least a couple dozen SFRGs. Several in the continental US, one or two in Alaska, maybe one on Hawaii, and another per territory (Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa etc) and then another dozen or so on the moon, and then a few more on Mars.

That way we have at least one pointed in every direction when the ayys show up.

>>34338465
>SFRG in Hawaii
>hey let's detonate a tsar bomba inside the cone of a volcanic island
>WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

>one branch
No.
Space Army, Space Navy, Space Marines, Space... Air Force, and of course the Atmosphere Guard.

>>34334464
Will Special Operations help subvert ayy lmaos?

>>34340504
That way we can get even less synergy and cooperation than the military has already.

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>space AIR FORCE

Captain, Romulans decloaking off the port bow.

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>>34335778
>Humans in space suits weigh less than the mechanical systems
Because there's gravity in space; isn't there dumbass.....

>>34338477
Somehow I think the TB would be worse than the volcano. I mean that think would probably eat the island.

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When?

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BROWN COATS FOR LIFE

I aim to misbehave.

>>34331715
>Space Corps would serve under the Department of the Air Force, similar to the Marine Corps which serves under the Department of the Navy.
Ive been arguing that since space is one of those Air Force domains, they'd be responsible for actual space combat. But everyone I work with said it would be the Navy.

>>34333325
IF THEY RUN, THEY'RE A GREY
IF THEY DON'T RUN, THEY'RE A WELL-DISCIPLINED GREY.

>>34340920
It's because that every sci-fi setting, the military branch most show is a "navy". However, that'll only be possible once you get massive shipbuilding efforts and possibly FTL to justify it in space.

>>34338477
Well we'lll have another in Yellowstone so Hawaii really shouldn't be what you worry about.

>>34340654
Because you still need to get out of Earth's gravity dumbass

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>>34340654
>Hurr durr what is mass

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>>34338261
gonna dump any k-related spess stuff I have to keep this going

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>>34341913

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>>34341919

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>>34341926
not really /k/ but there are ayys so it counts

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>>34341938

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>>34341982

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>>34341989

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>>34342002

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>>34342020
last one I have

>>34338138
>By the space oddities

>>34331715
>tfw hearing impaired and can't get into mil service

guess its because in space, I'll never hear anyone else scream

>>34338455
Just imagine if we found out mars had massive reserves of crude oil not even a mile below the surface

>>34340654
do you not know what mass is?

read a book you fucking ape

>>34335509
Because it's cool

>>34343795
>time to fight some ayyy-qaeda to 'liberate' their oil.

>>34343928
Cleaver joke

>>34342002
>russians

>>34331715
If they're a part of the air force, what will the soldiers be called? They can't be space marines. Space airmen makes no sense. Space corpsmen? Star soldiers?

>>34332723
You'd think the age limit would be fairly loose, I mean what would the Space Corps actually do that'd require teenagers and early twenty-somethings? How old are you?

>>34333325

>astrotroopers

I think you mean SPACE MARINES

>>34345256
Possible names
>Spacemen
>Astromen
>Cosmen (from cosmonauts)
>Space marines

>>34345256
>they can't be space marines

We already have a God-Emperor, why can't we have space marines?

lol there are no muslims in space, what is the point?

>>34344116
>cleaver joke

What?

>>34340504
>atmosphere guard

KEK

Wait a fucking second, aren't there a number of treaties signed by several NATO (US included) and non-NATO countries that forbids militarization of space?

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>>34346927
>nato
>relevant

>>34346927

Trump gives no fucks. First time I've said anything positive about Trump, but we are literally the only country in a position to do this and if we don't do it now someone else will.

>>34332723
So you're pushing 40?

>>34346927
It only refers to nukes and WMDs. Conventional weapons are free game. The UN tried to push a ban on all weapons in 2006 but the USA voted against it. (Only ones apart from Israel to do so).

>>34346927
And who's gonna stop us? Canada's space force? OH NO WAIT, THEY DONT HAVE A SPACE FORCE.

>>34347404
Canada is basically the US's shiny robotic dong when it comes to space. All their work and astronauts use NASA or the Russians.

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>>34347400
>but the USA voted against it
Hell yeah.