WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would direct the Defense Department and the Pentagon to create a new “Space Force” - an independent sixth branch of the armed forces.Trump has floated this idea before - in March, he said he initially conceived it as a joke - but has offered few details about how the Space Force would operate.Trump said Monday that the branch would be “separate but equal” from the Air Force.
Trump Says He’s Directing Pentagon To Create A New ‘space Force’
Sarah Kaplan and Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Mon, 06/18/2018 - 10:59am
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