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Before Space Force was created, there was a, there was a brief new push to talk about putting weapons on satellites in space, ostensibly for defensive purposes. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Space Force, it's here, it's the newest branch of the US military, and it's got its own uniforms

and a snazzy new patch that looks a lot like the emblem for the United Federation of

planets. But it's only got one member at the moment and what exactly is that guy doing all day

here to help us figure out what's going on is Joseph Trevithic of the war zone

Joe thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

All right, so I feel like we've been talking about Space Force the entire time the show has

been on the air in one form or another. But now it looks like we actually have a space force that's actually going to happen.

Well it has happened. Yeah it has happened. There's camouflage now, there's a patch.

What is legally a thing?

What is, what are the broad strokes of Space Force?

Like what are we not seeing?

It's like most of the focus has been on what I would call

memeable dumb moments like the Star Trek Patch, like people making fun of the camouflage. But this is a serious thing. We're going to

spend money on it. What is it ostensibly supposed to do?

So Space Force, and you're right, Space Force has been a thing we've been dealing with for some time now.

The first proposals for what has been alternately called Space Corps and Space Force and similar things over the years.

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