Up until now, it has been Army, Coast Guard, Navy, Marines and Air Force. This is nice and symmetrical since there are five sides to the Pentagon and five stars in the highest possible general rank. The addition of another branch breaks this symmetry, though. So, what to do?
I propose that the Marines be subsumed by the Department of the Navy since they are naturally part of that branch. The symmetry is thus restored. The branches of the Military, then, will be the Army and it's Four Bitches as it has been and as it always should be.
The Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Before that it was part of the Department of Transportation and before that, the Commerce Department. (It was originally established to collect custom duties.)
It's only part of the "military hierarchy" in times of war, such as World War I and World Way II, when it falls under the Navy.
Well... there are 8 uniformed military services. The Coast Guard also falls under the DHS and formally the Department of Transportation not Defense and the Marines are a department of the US Navy.
With the addition of space force the five fingered fist analogy is out of place. It’s more effective to beat the enemy before you even hit the battle field. Psychological war fare is evident across cultures, both human and animal display intimidation patterns.
As a non-military background person - don't these trivial "tribe comparisons" equate in sillyness to the "my sports team is better than your sports team" comparisons?
Each branch has specific strengths, personalities, weaknesses, and best of breed jobs to be done.
The shape of the Pentagon is an artifact of the shape of the property where it was originally going to be built. The location changed mid design but in the interest of speed of design and construction they kept the original shape. Nothing more symbolic to it than that (this is why it's such an irregular pentagon, the shape was whatever the perimeter of the original space looked like).
Well when you are attending the Space Academy (which should probably be named after one of the Mercury 7 Astronauts who served in the Air Force {cough, cough, Cooper}) you would be a Space Cadet. Once you graduated you would be a 'Spacer' perhaps. I figure at this point a new service isn't going to call their members '*-men' since they will be an integrated group. They could just call them 'Astronauts' and distinguish them as civilian or military in context. A friend suggested 'Space Person' but that doesn't really roll off the tongue. Then there is 'Space Technician' or 'Person of Space' or 'Space Cast' or 'Spaceist'. Not an easy choice.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 83.8 ms ] threadNot Spacers nor Spacepersons.
I propose that the Marines be subsumed by the Department of the Navy since they are naturally part of that branch. The symmetry is thus restored. The branches of the Military, then, will be the Army and it's Four Bitches as it has been and as it always should be.
> In 2002 it was placed under the DHS. During time of war it may be transferred to the Department of the Navy, under the Department of Defense.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_Un...
It's only part of the "military hierarchy" in times of war, such as World War I and World Way II, when it falls under the Navy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_Un...
Each branch has specific strengths, personalities, weaknesses, and best of breed jobs to be done.
Having twice as many toilets as necessary because of ancient Jim Crow laws is better symbolism.
As far as branches, the Merchant Marines falls under the DoD as well. IIRC, it had the highest casualty rate of any of the branches in WWII.
John J. Pershing was also promoted to that rank, while he was still an active officer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Armies
Is it just a notional change, or is new money going to into this, increasing the (already large) U.S. military spending?
One year ago, the plan was to start it underneath the Air Force, but I haven't found that detail in today's news. https://www.space.com/43161-white-house-space-force-under-ai...
> Q: Will any units assigned to Space Force move locations? A: There are currently no plans to relocate existing units.
Another answer informs people that they can remain in the Air Force even if their unit is space force.
Final interesting aspect: the join space force link points to airforce.com/careers.
That aside, it seems like a lot of additional bureaucracy for not a lot of gain. I'm curious how that works out.