A proposed new military branch would send US troops to guard the galaxy
By Nancy Coleman, CNN Updated 0532 GMT (1332 HKT) July 8, 2017
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/07/politics/space-corps-bill-trnd/index.html
A Congressional committee is proposing that the US armed forces add a new military branch that would, quite literally, send soldiers out of this world.
The crew of real-life Buzz Lightyears is described in the National Defense Authorization Act, which is now headed to the full House for a vote. There isn't usually anything extraordinary about the NDAA, which every year lays out military spending.
But this time, the House Armed Services Committee voted 60 to 1 in favor of a bill that would, among many other things, create the first new branch of the armed forces since the Air Force's founding in 1947.
Among the Space Corps' official duties, as established in the bill, would be "providing combat-ready space forces that enable the commanders of the combatant commands to fight and win wars."
The Space Corps would fall under the Air Force in the same way the Marine Corps does the Navy. The chief of staff of the Space Corps, a presidential appointee with a six-year term, would be on equal footing with the Air Force's chief of staff. Both would report to the Secretary of the Air Force.
