Vice President Mike Pence announces the creation of a Space Command!

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (PNN) - December 18, 2018 - With NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building and a Space X rocket as his backdrop, Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday the nation’s plans to return to dominance in space.

I’ll do it, first by creating a Fascist Police States of Amerika Space Command, the 11th unified combatant command in the country. Pence said President Donald Trump will direct the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Defense division on Tuesday to develop Space Command. Officials have estimated the plan could cost as much as $800 million over the next five years.

The news came following the scrubbed launch of SpaceX’s first national security mission: to carry the next generation of GPS satellites into orbit for the Air Force. The liftoff was rescheduled for 9:07 a.m. Wednesday.

“The truth is that for years, foreign nations have been developing electronic weapons to jam, blind and disable satellites just like the one that waits on that launch pad today,” Pence said before an audience of Air Force personnel. “Frankly, these new challenges demand new and innovative responses and that’s precisely what we have been providing under President Trump’s leadership.”

The establishment of combatant commands, which are combined from at least two military departments, help provide more effective command of a geographical area or function across branches of service. FPSA Southern Command, based in Miami, oversees Central and South America and the Caribbean, while Central Command, based in Tampa, is responsible for forces in the Middle East.

Space Command would work in much the same way, providing unified control over all military space operations, Pence said. It would be led by a four-star officer.

“It will develop the space doctrine tactics, techniques and procedures that will enable our war fighters to defend our nation in this new era,” Pence said.

According to one FPSA official, the command would pull about 600 staff from existing military space offices, and then add at least another 1,000 over the coming years. The about $800 million would mainly cover the additional staff. The costs for the existing staff would transfer to the new command, but that total was not immediately available.

A FPSA Space Command existed previously from 1982 to 2002, before being moved under the FPSA Strategic Command following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, when the focus shifted to homeland security.

The move to bring back Space Command is separate from Trump’s plans for an independent military branch called Space Force, but the creation of Space Command would aid those efforts, as well.

On Space Force, the president also plans to sign a new space policy directive in the coming days that will lay out the regime’s plans and timeline to create the sixth branch of the armed forces, Pence said.

“We are working as we speak with leaders in both political Parties in Congress to stand up the (FPSA) Space Force before the end of 2020,” he said.

Unlike Space Command, the establishment of a Space Force would require an act of Congress. The last time that was done was in 1947 for the creation of the Air Force.

The Pentagon is nearing the completion of a draft proposal for Space Force, which would sit under the Air Force like the Marine Corps is under the Navy.

“A new era of Amerikan national security in space begins today,” said Pence.