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US Space Force Releases First Recruitment Video, Acknowledges Netflix Comedy 'Space Force' (cnet.com) 45

Posted by EditorDavid from the flying-high dept.
The newly-created U.S. Space Force has released its first recruitment video, CNET reports: In a video posted Wednesday to Twitter showing rockets, mission control-types rooms and U.S. Space Force members in spacesuits, a voice-over says, "maybe your purpose on this planet isn't on this planet." Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said during a livestream Wednesday that so far recruitment hasn't been a problem for the Space Force. "There's been an avalanche of applicants." This sixth branch of the US military was established in December 2019 and will be operational by mid-2021.
CNET notes the video appeared "a day after Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming comedy Space Force. And the leader of the U.S. Space Force says he's looking forward to the Netflix comedy co-created by Steve Carell.

"The one piece of advice I'd give to Steve Carell is to get a haircut," Gen. Jay Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the nonprofit Space Foundation. Raymond is bald, and joked that Steve Carell is "looking a little too shaggy if he wants to play the Space Force chief."
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  • Does anyone know whether the Space Force launches US spy sats, or does the NRO do that on its own? Or both?

    Anyhow, I hope they pick some cool rank insignia for enlisted personel. The USAF's "wind over an airfoil" chevrons don't really fit a vacuum-focused service arm.

    • The USAF's "wind over an airfoil" chevrons don't really fit a vacuum-focused service arm.

      Ya, but it was proposed by a vacuum-focused President -- and Administration. :-)

      [Just imagine the airfoil as a wisp of orange hair ...]

  • AKA "jobs program for defense contractors" because "corporate welfare" was starting to hit too close to home. I mean, its not like we have other things to worry about in this country.

    • I like how they're projecting in the video the fear of those "unknown unknowns" that war criminal and certified idiot Rumsfield came up with because he had nothing else.

      The video is trying hard to make "space force" sound like they'll be fighting some UFOs, when in fact it is just a lame attempt to shelter the US power and business elites from being accountable.

    • But why? They can team up with private security contractors and attempt to invade other countries. I'm sure that will go well!

    • Space Force isnâ(TM)t doing anything new. Itâ(TM)s just a management shuffle of existing assets.

  • Smart Branding Be Damned (Score:3, Interesting)

    by rtb61 ( 674572 ) on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:44PM (#60042804) Homepage

    If they had half a brain, they would have called it the space guard force, as in coast guard, as in their primary mission would be rescuing people and space craft, allowing for proper commercial development of space. Not some space force whose primary mission, is what, to start war with far more advanced aliens or to end life on earth, who exactly are they planning to fight with in space and flood all earth orbits with debris and end space exploration for over a century before all the rubbish falls back to earth.

    Space rescue craft would be the most advanced, the fastest and longest range and be a sound logical goal for space infrastructure development. Rescuing people and craft in space is an essential and primary element of humanity expanding out into space. Finding new ways to mass murder humanity from space is an essential and primary goal of making humanity extinct, oh look which direction the USA chose, the mass extinction route, so moral and thoughtful.

    • Re: Smart Branding Be Damned (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Way Smarter Than You ( 6157664 ) on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:41AM (#60043078)
      Uh... I was unaware there are so many people stranded in orbit we need an entire military branch to rescue them all.

      Is there a chart somewhere you have that shows how many people have been trapped in space each year in need of rescue since Yuri Gagarin went up?

      Also, since you mention the coast guard... their primary role is not rescuing drowning people. It is drug interdiction. Do you see the space force as the "space alien drug interdiction service" to keep us all safe from V or X or Z or whatever it is those dastardly space aliens are trying to sell our children?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dwywit ( 1109409 )

      I think you just described half of the mission objective of International Rescue AKA the Thunderbirds

      It shouldn't be too difficult to get the naming rights.

      A chance to pilot Thunderbird 2? Sign me up!

  • The moment I saw Steve Carell, I was sold!

    Maybe that means this is going to be funny, I don't know, but I'm watching with baited breath!

  • "Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?"

    Maybe we need another 2000 years for introspective responses.

  • Can we make them go back to being fiction?
  • I like it on earth. It took my family millions of years of trial and error genetics to produce a body that is fit to survive on this planet. I wont be going off world until earths gravity and conditions can be exactly mimicked.

    • A similar exoplanet somewhere in the universe is very probable. The issue is getting there. For that physical transportation isn't going to work. Metaphysical transportation I leave to your contemplation.

    • Well, no. By the fact of your existence your ancestors figured it out 650m-1+ billion years ago depending on when life began.

  • What exactly is it good for but this?

    What space enemies are trying to invade America exactly?

    The only mass-murdering assholes that ever invaded America now run the continent(s), so as long as that's not fixed, what's the point anyway? ;)

    All I can imagine this being good for, is sneaky "not"-warmongering against other countries. As usual.
    I bet Russia is also already imitating it. As usual.
    And China sees no point, and there is nobody in space to sell their crap to. ;)

  • CNET mistake (Score:3)

    by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Sunday May 10, 2020 @04:47AM (#60043266)

    Space Force is a comedy made by Trump. But being typical tragedy writer Space Force is actually a dark comedy and a reflection of societies value of vanity.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by XY0 ( 6708838 )
      read the comment above yours, in case you are too dumb to find it: The Space Force isn't being created out of whole cloth. They're just taking the US Air Force Space Command and turning it into a separate service branch, still under the Department of the Air Force (like how the US Marine Corps is under the Department of the Navy but is not part of the US Navy). This is pretty similar to how the US Air Force started out as part of the US Army until it was later spun off. It's not even an added cost. The
  • Why is the motherfucker still the president?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gtall ( 79522 )

      Because the Republican faithful still buy his b.s., and hence the "leaders" of the Republican Party, mainly composed of Trump invertebrates, figure it is better to be loved by the faithful than do what is correct for the country.

    • Why is the motherfucker still the president?

      Because his term runs until January 20, 2021. Or 2025 if he wins re-election. (Let's hope not.) And it is next to impossible to remove a POTUS from office mid-term, as recent history has demonstrated.

      Contrast this with parliamentary democracies and their leaders, which can fall at any time after a vote of non-confidence. Constitutional crisis? No, they just call an election.

  • Does this mean they're finally doing something about the aliens in the Pacific?

  • They should have called it the US Spacy. Minmay would have been proud.
  • I mean, as far as I remember, to film assets of the military you pretty have to have their agreement and they can change your script. Otherwise you are limited to what you can do/say/show.

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