Guardians : US Space Force members get new name on first anniversary
Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement at a celebratory event tracing the development of the newest branch of the military over the past year.
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WASHINGTON: The Trump administration celebrated the first birthday of the US Space Force on Friday by announcing that its members will be known as guardians . Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement at a celebratory event tracing the development of the newest branch of the military over the past year. It is my honor, on behalf of the president of the United States, to announce that henceforth the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as guardians. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come, Pence said.
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration celebrated the first birthday of the U.S. Space Force on Friday by announcing that its members will be known as guardians.
Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement at a celebratory event tracing the development of the newest branch of the military over the past year. It is my honor, on behalf of the president of the United States, to announce that henceforth the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as guardians, Pence said. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come.
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The newly developed branch of military, which is being led by current Vice President
Mike Pence, revealed in an announcement that “Guardians is a name with a long history in space operations, tracing back to the original command motto of Air Force Space Command in 1983, ‘Guardians of the High Frontier.’”
“Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come,”
Mr. Pence shared in an additional statement. “The Space Force is growing strongly every day, and just in the nick of time. Space is a vacuum, but we’re not operating in a vacuum … space is a war-fighting domain. It’s imperative that we invest the resources, the personnel and the technology to defend our nation and defend our values in the outer reaches of space.”
U.S. Space Force now called ‘Guardians’ . of the galaxy? Groot would like a word. (OK, maybe 3.)
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 18, 2020
Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, at right, with Barbara Barrett, secretary of the Air Force, presenting President Donald Trump with the flag of the United States Space Force in the Oval Office on May 15. The people of the Space Force have a new name: Guardians.Samuel Corum/Pool | Getty Images
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“Guardians.”
The good people of Twitter thought so, too.
It kind of helped that the announcement was rolled out in dramatic fashion on the social network Friday night.