Space Shuttle Door Gunners rejoice!

[Watrdawg]

As the product of Army ROTC and former Cadet, and the father of a USMA Cadet, I guess officer trainees for this new branch will be Space Cadets.

My son is at The Citadel and and he brought up the Space Force article also. I threw the Space Cadet label at him and he turned around and said "Aw that just aint right!" All I could do is laugh!

[OH58D]

My son is at The Citadel and and he brought up the Space Force article also. I threw the Space Cadet label at him and he turned around and said "Aw that just aint right!" All I could do is laugh!

Awesome. I bet you're proud of him. Is he doing college ROTC in one of the branches? My son did four years of High School JROTC before the Academy. He just finished his Freshman year at the USMA. He is in training right now getting ready for Air Assault School at Fort Campbell. It's gonna be hotter than Hell for his ten days of fun. He's been rucking with his flick and ruck carrying 45 lbs, doing 8-12 miles twice a week. Getting himself toughened up.

[SteyrAUG]

So in this hypothetical space force, are we still hitching rides with the Russians?

[ubet]

Finally!

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[Whiskey_Bravo]

So in this hypothetical space force, are we still hitching rides with the Russians?

That was kind of my thought. Before we start spending more money on a new space force, how about we figure out how to get to space without relying on the Russians.

[kwelz]

Not that I am opposed to this, but aren't we signatories of treaties that keep us from having an armed presence in space?

[SteyrAUG]

[BrigandTwoFour]

Not that I am opposed to this, but aren't we signatories of treaties that keep us from having an armed presence in space?

That treaty technically only applies to emplacement WMD in space.

[MA2_Navy_Veteran]

Remember the "Star Wars" project?
Ever wonder about all those military satellites they've been sending up recently?
Remember all the talk about what was to replace the space shuttle program?
They sure have been doing A LOT of mars studies lately.

Personally, I think we could use a base on the moon.

[Watrdawg]

Awesome. I bet you're proud of him. Is he doing college ROTC in one of the branches? My son did four years of High School JROTC before the Academy. He just finished his Freshman year at the USMA. He is in training right now getting ready for Air Assault School at Fort Campbell. It's gonna be hotter than Hell for his ten days of fun. He's been rucking with his flick and ruck carrying 45 lbs, doing 8-12 miles twice a week. Getting himself toughened up.

He did JROTC in HS and got a 4yr Army ROTC scholarship. He contracted Army 3-4 months into his Freshman year. He's going into his Junior year this Aug. Next week her heads to Ft. Knox for 6wks to work as Op4 for the Advance Camp cadets coming through. He's looking forward to it. He actually volunteered for it. It will give him OML points towards his branch choice. Can't beat an Academy/Military school education thats for sure.

Sounds like your Son is well on his way to being one of the best also. The main thing with Air Assault is paying attention to detail and memorizing everything exactly as it should be. One of my buddy's kids flunked out of it twice. 1st time was the inspection the very 1st day. He left his chin strap on his helmet unbuckled. The 2nd time was a major test and he missed the cutoff score by 2 points.