Alton Blevins: See this essay by me from January 2018.

Sir John

I have had my Space Force Tee shirts since November
Patriot Depot has sold them, a take off of the Old NASA vector design.

https://patriotdepot.com/space-force-t-shirt/

From the second article: “religious texts aren’t typically used when officers take an oath of office, though leaders can opt to do so.”

This option is what freedom of religion is all about.

From the second article: “Others maintained that, by using the Bible, the Space Force will ostracize commanders and officials who practice a different faith.”

If we are not free to opt for our own religious text, then why are we not the ones being ostracized? If we must do things only the way that the MRFF directs, then where is our freedom of religion — or our other freedoms, for that matter? What is the difference between forbidding us from using our chosen religious texts and requiring us to use a specific religious text?

What is the military and the new Space Force protecting if it isn’t the right to freedom of religion?

From the second article: “‘The MRFF condemns, in as full-throated a manner as is humanly possible, the shocking and repulsive display of only the most vile, exclusivist, fundamentalist Christian supremacy, dominance, triumphalism and exceptionalism which occurred at yesterday’s “blessing” at the Washington National Cathedral,’ [Mikey Weinstein] told Military.com on Monday.”

Just how American can the Military Religious Freedom Foundation be if it does not understand even the most basic purpose of the United States: Liberty.

Excerpted from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to … secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

We are that Posterity for whom the government and its military is supposed to be securing the Blessings of Liberty. Mikey and his foundation have no clue.

“Raymond was named commander of the new United States Space Command upon its creation in August of last year. That command, which sought to better organize the U.S. military’s space assets and operations, is being phased out as personnel are transferred to the Space Force.”

US Space Command is a DoD “Combatant Command”, that will operate US MilSpace assets into the future. Space Force is a military Service, that will provide US Space Command with personnel, planning, budgeting, procurement, R&D, training, and all the other things a military Service provides the various Combatant Commands in DoD.

What is being folded into Space Force is the personnel from USAF Space Command, a subordinate Command of Strategic Command, with lower budgeting priority, which will, in fact, disappear. I have sent a correction on this to VOA. We will have to see whether or not they bother to correct the error.

The inaction problem in MilSpace has finally grown worse than the fear of over-spending in Space, since the formation of the PLA Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in 2015. It is expectable that a government hierarchy will spend more money than a market-based society would like. It is a pre-industrial institution. Its resources are thus politically assigned, rather than needs driven by those focused on a particular task. In “peacetime” it has become all too normal for politicians to “do things to spend money, rather than spend money to get things done.”