Is everyone ready for the US Space Corps?

The House Armed Services Committee voted to create a sixth branch of the military called the Space Corps to branch off the newest military branch (Air Force).

No, I'm not kidding. Our military just decided that space, which no other country is near colonizing (heck, we're not really near it...), needs a military branch... to fight "space wars" and they need more of your money to do it.

They'll even get a new Joint Cheif.

I know, I know... we're not supposed to question the military here in the US... it's unpatriotic and every time you doubt it a fairy loses its wings... but fuck this. The US doesn't need and untouchable high ground from which they can carry out their oil wars.

This is sounding very much like something that has been hidden from people that should know.

Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), a retired Air Force colonel, was similarly surprised by the Space Corps proposal. She said she had not been aware of it until it appeared in the bill the full committee debated on Wednesday.

“This is honestly the first time I’ve heard about a major reorganization to our Air Force,” she said Wednesday evening. “This is sort of a shocking way to hear about a very major reorganization to our military, and I think it deserves at least a couple hearings and discussions on the matter at the full committee level.”

But oposition is nothing to a force like they've collected. They'll just push it through Congress:

Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.): the creation of the new service would properly reflect space’s importance as a new warfighting domain, “whether we like it or not.”

Mac Thornberry (R-Texas): opposition from the Air Force is no reason for delay, pointing out that the Pentagon has a long history of fighting changes to its own organizational structures.

“It was Congress that created the Air Force and the Department of Defense in 1947 when it became time to force the Army and the Navy together, it was Congress that did Goldwater-Nichols,” he said. “There are times when an issue becomes ripe and it is our responsibility to act. I believe this is the time for us to act.”