We all had fun mocking the Space Force, but the laws of bureaucratic thermodynamics say that a branch of the military, once created, can never be destroyed. Missions will be created for it and it will sink its roots into Congress. This may be Trump's greatest long-term legacy
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The B2 bomber costs a billion dollars a plane, is hard to see on radar, and gets sent on 18 hour round trips out of Missouri to bomb suspicious weddings in Afghanistan. Half the Navy is entirely obsolete. So it's not like the Space Force will stand out because it's so ridiculous
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There's entire weapons systems that get created just to give branches of the military something to do, so I'm really excited to see what Space Force will add to the design-by-committee mix. The new carrier-based space helicopter is going to be the envy of C.O.B.R.A. Commander
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What the U.S. needs now is a Time Force of temporal warriors waiting to receive their full pension, medical care, and lifetime PX benefits while complaining about socialism. It could be amply staffed from our existing active duty troops, it just needs a cool patch
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Pensions aren’t a thing anymore and they want to privatize the VA.
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Then whatever package of lifetime benefits today's military timeserver waits for. The guy I took a sailing class with couldn't shut up about his PX privileges and subsidized Hawaiian vacations
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Wow, I mean bragging about the Exchange says a lot more about him than the military tbh I mean you’d have to really like tax free cheap vodka, jerky, and kind of overpriced electronics...
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He gave me a window into the comforts of the career officer, which are considerable. Venerated at home by an unquestioning public, steak-fed in Okinawa and Germany, our hero retires at full Colonel to a life of relaxation, subsidized PX frozen meats, and bitching about Obamacare
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