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NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts) Sat Jan 25, 2020, 01:10 PM Jan 2020

Didn't Trump try to sell the Space Force

as something that he created? There has been an Air Force Space Command since 1982 - so, something created under Reagan and Donny Dollhands is stealing credit yet again?

Some Trumpster posted that Air Force Space Command logo from 1982 on Facebook in response to the Trekkers claiming it was stolen from Star Trek. However, unknown to me, we had a Space Command that was formed in 1982 and not 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command

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Didn't Trump try to sell the Space Force (Original Post) NewJeffCT Jan 2020 OP

Reagan was in the Army and then in the United States Army Air Forces, still Army. The Air Force braddy Jan 2020 #1

Yes NewJeffCT Jan 2020 #2

It's a new branch of the military, that is a huge deal and it happened all of a sudden, someone did braddy Jan 2020 #3

braddy

(3,585 posts)

1. Reagan was in the Army and then in the United States Army Air Forces, still Army. The Air Force

Reply to NewJeffCT (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2020, 01:35 PM

Jan 2020

Space Command, was still Air Force, that is ended now and we have a new separate military branch, the United States Space Force

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

2. Yes

Reply to braddy (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 25, 2020, 05:19 PM

Jan 2020

but, Trump was acting like the entire idea was his own.

braddy

(3,585 posts)

3. It's a new branch of the military, that is a huge deal and it happened all of a sudden, someone did