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Can the Space Force shake off Trump? POLITICO 2/4/2021 By Jacqueline Feldscher and Connor O’Brien © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Gen. Jay Raymond attends an event marking the establishment the U.S. Space Command. Former President Donald Trump loved the Space Force. Between selling Space Force gear from his campaign store and using the new branch to elicit cheers at rallies, Trump pushed the new service across the finish line and cemented it into his legacy. But now that...

By TONY CAPACCIO | Bloomberg | Published: January 6, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — Defense legislation passed in spite of President Donald Trump’s veto will bring a heightened focus on diversity issues and efforts to combat white supremacy and extremist behavior within the U.S. military. Along with billions of dollars for new weapons systems and a pay raise for troops, a new deputy inspector general’s position was created by the bipartisan defense authorization bill to carry ...

Share This: Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper attends the National Defense Authorization Act signing by President Donald J. Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Dec. 20, 2019. “Everybody’s watching — we can’t build a heavy bureaucratic structure even if we wanted to.” – Lt. Gen. David Thompson, Vice Commander of the Space Force “You can’t do that. If you let your friends blow up the Earth, I’ll never speak to you again.” – Space Invaders, 1990  Asking the media to think ab...