Being able to launch things quick when needed is hardly unnecessary.

Balloons are well in atmosphere and not even close to space. More of an Air Force problem than a Space Force problem.

Here is some reporting on the reporting

https://1819news.com/news/item/report-biden-white-house-appears-ready-to-reverse-a-trump-administration-plan-to-relocate-the-u-s-space-command-from-colorado-springs-to-huntsville

A uniform. Which looks nothing like a Bus Driver (Air Force uniforms on the other hand…)

I can only assume you’re referring to the Air Force

Looks like every other service cap in the Armed Forces

In science fiction. Not in reality, where Space evolved from air forces across the world, not navies.

Like Air Force

>have signed a treaty saying we won’t weaponize it.

No such treaty has been signed by any major spacefaring country.

You can say the exact same thing about the Army and Air Force having done the same thing. But you don’t see any serious arguments for trying to merge the Air Force back into the Army.

How does GPS sound?

>Which I’m assuming is still a joke.

And why do you assume that?

Much like the Army already dealt with air before 1947. Yet we have an Air Force today.

It is a good metric, considering the Space Force was previously Air Force Space Command for decades.

No. Both the Air Force and Space Force coequal military branches under the larger civilian-led Department of the Air Force.

Russian anti-satellite missile test draws condemnation from space companies and countries

NASA and the Space Force do different things, just like NASA and the Air Force do different things.

NASA’s budget, part of a $1.7 trillion government spending bill that still needs to be voted on by Congress, is 5.6 percent more than last year's budget. It falls short of the $26 billion requested by the White House. For the first time NASA's budget is smaller than the $26.3 billion dollar budget for the Space Force.

The bill provides $26.3 billion for the U.S. Space Force, which is nearly $1.7 billion more than the Pentagon requested and more than NASA's $25.4 billion budget.

>and what’s with those retro futurist fascist uniforms?

Just because a uniform is dark blue, military, and has a high collar doesn't make it fascist.

Because space is cool?

You say that like it's a bad thing?

That's not a satellite problem.

>Only one has something called Space Force (to my knowledge), and it just sounds like a joke.

The Russian Space Forces and Chinese People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force both exist.

>It was never meant to be taken seriously from it's inception because it was born out of the "America First" low IQ caveman mindset.

I'm it was a proposal between a Democrat and Republican in Congress. Hardly "low IQ caveman mindset."

https://cooper.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-jim-cooper-statement-on-space-force

Which objectively makes it 10 times cooler than things that don't have the word space in it.