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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants the US military to create a new “space force,” adding to the Pentagon’s current ground, navy and air forces.
Trump told troops at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station near San Diego that the new group would be able to encapsulate the “tremendous amount” of work the military and government are doing in space-related defense.
Last year some legislators pushed a bill in Congress that included a provision to establish a new branch of the military dubbed the Space Corps.
The military itself has so far resisted, saying it does not need to create another force and its attendant bureaucracy.
