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09-22-2021, 01:08 AM | #81 |
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Space Force Guardians make use of a Delta, Globe and Orbit element that the branch says "represents the totality of our Space Force", and use ranks like those of the Air Force, but with new enlisted rank insignias.
The Guardian Ideal is the Space Force’s foundational document outlining the service’s boundary-pushing, innovative approach to talent management, from accession to development, and it combines aspirations with actions and milestones. Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond explained that "at the heart of the Guardian Ideal is the commitment between the leader and the led, founded upon our core values of Character, Connection, Commitment, and Courage. These values guide who we are and how we conduct our mission. They will unite and sustain us as we grow together as one interconnected force." Semper Supra!
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... freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well thought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same... - Ronald Reagan |
09-22-2021, 12:54 PM | #82 |
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Payload flies the shuttle. Space Shot pilots the booster. Sci-Fi is in charge of the converted Stellar Stiletto. He's only an E-4, so I'm not sure how he was trained so quickly and given sole command of a multi-million dollar hunk of hardware. At least Space Shot, who is also low in rank, can be explained away as a civilian snatched up by the JOEs from NASA, but Sci-Fi's transition from laser / directed energy expert to "starship captain" is a bit hard to swallow!
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09-22-2021, 05:13 PM | #83 |
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I used to like the character Sci-Fi in 1986, and even didn't mind what they were doing with him in 1991, but unfortunately the Space Fighter Pilot career change for the 1993 and 1994 versions of Sci-Fi as part of the Star Brigade subset were really ruining that character for me. Where you might have had a problem with the line from his file card which read, "An obvious genius with lasers and and radically designed instrumentation, Sci-Fi became the first recruit to pilot a Starfighter...", I had a bigger problem with the very next line which read "He handles the jet's controls with confidence, even at quasar velocities exceeding the speed of light!". This Star Wars "make the jump to hyperspace" stuff really doesn't work very well in a military themed science fiction genre. I never expected Sci-Fi to make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs, and would prefer he work on lasers and military technology in space. His 1994 file card stated "On a recent mission he let an entire squadron of Cobra Blackstar pilots chase him so close to a black hole, that when he pulled an inverted G-force dive, they became caught in his jet wash and sucked into inescapable oblivion...". With his technology and laser skills, there is so much that Sci-Fi could do for the Star Brigade, but instead they went all Tony Scott with some 1986 "Top Gun" film. Inverted dives in outer space, and jet wash tricks... ugh!
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... freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well thought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same... - Ronald Reagan |
09-22-2021, 05:38 PM | #84 |
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09-23-2021, 12:08 PM | #85 |
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The quality of the file cards went dramatically downhill after Hama stopped writing them. The absolute worst is the card for Red Ninjas:
"G.I. Joe is the only force that has ever defeated them, as they did in the famous Sushi battle that had sweet and sour moments for both sides." There aren't enough eyerolls in the world to properly react to that. |
09-23-2021, 02:54 PM | #86 |
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The quality of the file cards went dramatically downhill after Hama stopped writing them. The absolute worst is the card for Red Ninjas:
"G.I. Joe is the only force that has ever defeated them, as they did in the famous Sushi battle that had sweet and sour moments for both sides." There aren't enough eyerolls in the world to properly react to that.
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09-29-2021, 11:34 AM | #87 |
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The quality of the file cards went dramatically downhill after Hama stopped writing them. The absolute worst is the card for Red Ninjas:
"G.I. Joe is the only force that has ever defeated them, as they did in the famous Sushi battle that had sweet and sour moments for both sides." There aren't enough eyerolls in the world to properly react to that. |
12-20-2022, 03:43 PM | #88 |
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To the men and women who defend the freedom's final frontier, Happy Birthday Guardians! The US Space Force is now three years old. Semper Supra!
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... freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well thought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same... - Ronald Reagan |
12-20-2022, 04:55 PM | #89 |
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Wake up, Hasbro!
The U.S. Space Force started five months ago, and still no announcements for G.I. Joe to recognize this branch of the Armed Forces. (Amazo Toys is creating a tongue in cheek action figure line for Space Force, so G.I. Joe could involve a more serious version if Hasbro ever decides to). Quote:
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs:
Today, after a yearlong process that produced hundreds of submissions and research involving space professionals and members of the general public, we can finally share with you the name by which we will be known: Guardians. The opportunity to name a force is a momentous responsibility. Guardians is a name with a long history in space operations, tracing back to the original command motto of Air Force Space Command in 1983, ?€œGuardians of the High Frontier.?€? The name Guardians connects our proud heritage and culture to the important mission we execute 24/7, protecting the people and interest of the U.S. and its allies. Guardians. Semper Supra! https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Arti...professionals/ American scientists. What Was Operation Paperclip? This controversial top-secret U.S. intelligence program brought Nazi German scientists to America to harness their brain power for Cold War initiatives. In a covert affair originally dubbed Operation Overcast but later renamed Operation Paperclip, roughly 1,600 of these German scientists (along with their families) were brought to the United States to work on America's behalf during the Cold War. The program was run by the newly-formed Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), whose goal was to harness German intellectual resources to help develop America's arsenal of rockets and other biological and chemical weapons, and to ensure such coveted information did not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union. Although he officially sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services (OSS)the forerunner to the CIA bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country's postwar efforts. One of the most well-known recruits was Wernher von Braun, the technical director at the Peenemunde Army Research Center in Germany who was instrumental in developing the lethal V-2 rocket that devastated England during the war. Von Braun and other rocket scientists were brought to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, as War Department Special Employees to assist the U.S. Army with rocket experimentation. Von Braun later became director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, which eventually propelled two dozen American astronauts to the Moon. Although defenders of the clandestine operation argue that the balance of power could have easily shifted to the Soviet Union during the Cold War if these Nazi scientists were not brought to the United States, opponents point to the ethical cost of ignoring their abhorrent war crimes without punishment or accountability. - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.his...tion-paperclip
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