What the Hell Does the Space Force Even Do?

[@Justin_Taylor]

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[@andrewom679]

A space force fights in its warfighting domain, space. They have the assets to control communications worldwide. They have ZERO space ships. They are the psyop branch of the military proposed by Michael Aquino in his Mind War trilogy. Ever wonder why our new VP looks so much like him?

[@thorgnack7343]

warfunder

[@firstduckofwellington6889]

@@thorgnack7343*Wart hunder

[@cadetsparklez3300]

@@thorgnack7343 real

[@vitoscaleta439]

All hail the snail 🐌

[@nekomakhea9440]

Space Corps _is_ a better name. More importantly, they missed a huge opportunity. Navy has Seamen, Airforce has Airmen... so the demonym for members of Space Force should have been Spacemen.

[@josephshannon4792]

Nah astronauts are spacemen not those nerds pointing around satellites or whatever they do I haven’t watched the video. But they ain’t astronauts

[@donnguyen3795]

Can't wait until space marine is a thing

[@Pathfinder576]

@@donnguyen3795 I could an evolution of Para-Troopers into Orbital Drop Forces or O.D.Fs

[@hoilst265]

Pronounced "Spah-CHEH-men".

[@Marinealver]

Astronauts is better.

[@zanshibumi]

A space force proportionally accelerates a space mass.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Only comment as no one gets this great joke.

[@Wargoat6]

Space mass is used to calculate Space Momentum or Spamo for short

[@user-kun2147]

You, sir, are extraordinarily brilliant. May you be blessed with more ho’s that you could ever imagine

[@Nebula459]

if thhere are no space marines i will be sad

[@phineascampbell3103]

Me too. But if there ARE space marines I'll also still be sad,

[@Pathfinder576]

Now the Real question is would the U.S.Marine Corps take on the responsibility when they get their own department or will the U.S.Space Force have it's own marines under it own department(when they leave and stop being in the Department of the Air Force). And will the Army stay relevant?

[@mustafayigit8529]

glad no thunder warriors

[@sat-erise]

Giving Marines spaceships is a disaster waiting to happen

[@dragon12234]

​@Pathfinder576 the space force will probably get its own marines/espaciers due to how different their combat enviroment would be, with low gravity and such. And the army will remain relevant for land warfare cause they will be the only ones with heavy armor now that the US marine corps are getting rid of their tanks and tube artillery in order to specialise in Pacific Island hopping again

[@redargylesocks]

God I hate the Martian Confederacy SO much

[@johnjuiceshipper4963]

*Angry Adeptus Mechanicus noises*

[@Kevineitor199]

damn red dusters messed with my tax declaration and i have to pay 300k

[@cavalierliberty6838]

OH WAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF MARTIANS

[@theforestrealm8783]

Vos et ipsam civitatem benedicimus

[@leonelimalevu7302]

I heard a rumor that the Jovian Republics are scaling up for war, luckily the Saturnine States are still our allies (for now)

[@sargervbftw626]

Video starts at 3:08

[@PissSanity]

Thanks

[@themonkeyspaw7359]

Live free in the NC

[@sargervbftw626]

@themonkeyspaw7359 hell yeah brother!

[@swaggareli]

what a chad

[@mark463]

TY

[@user-fu7eh2mk5n]

If the recruiter tells me i have the opportunity to become an ODST i will sign whatever contract they hand me.

[@charliew4112]

Recruiters commonly lie, it wouldn’t be a crazy thing if a recruiter said “maybe one day if you join you could become master chief”

[@tor4472]

I'm down, though a space marine might be preferable with the second heart benefit as my hearts currently f*****

[@sedeuphadude80]

@@charliew4112Okay FUN SUCKER. Go eat your NERD SANDWICH with BORING SAUCE.

[@user-fu7eh2mk5n]

@@charliew4112 that would only make me sign quicker

[@Jan_2000]

*Proceeds to die in the middle east*

[@cheeseninja1115]

12:54 can we appreciate the USSF made the motto "Resistance is Futile" but in Latin for their aggressor squadron. It truly is the branch of war nerds and I love it!

[@ButtThuck]

Don't forget SpOC, or Space Operations Commands and STARCom, or Space Training and Readiness Command

[@harrytlynx5715]

It's awesome!

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Nerds would understand that the Borg were the villains... A lot like cops idiotically using the Punisher symbol. Ignoring that he stands for violence regardless of the law

[@OldSkoolUncleChris]

its a bad sign lol means its run by the rejects

[@sircliffordmalcolmjac5870]

Yeah, i just saw that too!! Killer stuff!!😲😲💪💪

[@NotPeacemaker]

BRING BACK THE WEIRD TUNGSTEN SPACE POLES

[@setsunatenma9467]

Not usable with current tech.

[@piolewus]

Gimme orbital particle accelerator cutting beams (lasers on that distance would be kinda impractical in atmosphere and it also looks cooler because you get to see the particles that heat up)

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

Rods from God. GI Joe style!! Lol

[@EnigmacTheFirst]

​@@setsunatenma9467 Not with that attitude.

[@frankhaugen]

You call a "fire mission" and thirty seconds later a non-nuclear sun obliterates the entire mountain that the sniper, and a few cities are located on, or around? It's not useful when you want precision, which most of us want. I'd rather be dead than partake in something that results in more non-combatants hurt than enemy combatants

[@craig.a.glesner]

Got to give it up to the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron for their choice of mottos; priceless.

[@alexroselle]

With a motto like that, they deserve to assimilate all other Space Aggressor Squadrons

[@Kurzula5150]

11:06 The space battle over northern England is probably because all the officers in the Galactic Empire are English.

[@jkparker7992]

I'm just trying to comprehend the space war over North Wales, given that aside from RAF Valley on Ynys Môn there's not much military value in the region I call home. Also why is the Republic of Ireland involved all of a sudden? I thought they were neutral.

[@maddlarkin]

Am I the only one who suspects that the Space Force logo was chosen so in a couple of hundred years when they are launching full fledged battlecruisers they can transistion the name to Star Fleet

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Air force used very similar Icons for space command units since the 50s... which likely inspired Star treks look ..

[@RevShifty]

Don't forget their uniforms. It looks like a commander's dress uniform lifted straight from TNG, which should help the Star Fleet transition even more.

[@brownruns]

“Poorly educated, overly caffeinated vehicle commander” beautiful

[@anand3623]

As long as we get Halo irl I don’t really care

[@chiefluke210]

"All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close... this is your lucky day."

[@alexroselle]

Much credit is due to whoever created that image for “Space Shuttle door gunners”, that made me laugh

[@Sturdy_Penguin]

Don't forget to buy a Ka-Bar USSF fighting knife. It's guaranteed to penetrate cosmonaut space suits.

[@JohnDoe-sw4kg]

Hell ya it does

[@hugmynutus]

One thing you should've highlighted is the cost of a spy satellite is "roughly" (as the budget isn't fully declassified) on par with a modern aircraft carrier. with that said, it is a little strange to consider there isn't hundreds of people dedicated to defending them.

[@mhb41]

Exosphere Defence Force would of been the most badass name imo. I’d sign upto the EDF right now to become a space marine (only name that should be used)

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Marines are (far from their own belief counting themselves as "elite") one use disposable assets. Any other name for competent fighters that are supposed to survive would be better. Otherwise you'll have to give them Red Shirts.

[@keiththorpe9571]

Star Trek fans often ask: "When are we gonna see Starfleet, when are we gonna see the United Federation of Planets?" I answer: "Guys, look at Space Force. We're never gonna see the Federation. We're not the Prime Universe...We're the Mirror Universe."

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

“Space!” - Tim Curry

[@grumbotron4597]

Mare Ignis spotted. Very cool video Justin.

[@Justin_Taylor]

I watched that video so many times it’s actually insane.

[@ThisIsDumbAllTheNamesAreTaken]

@@Justin_Taylor unless its more than 36 times, its not as much as me.

[@theavaliengineer]

It's incredible what solo artists are able to do with KSP and a few mods, let alone Blender. That video had my brain in headlock for like.. 3 weeks. Still does

[@maxsmith4234]

United states postal service is going to be the first government branch that makes a plane that can go to space with short turnaround

[@subjekt5577]

Didn't the navy already do it, or were those ballistics below the karman line?

[@maxsmith4234]

@@subjekt5577 no I mean like a full on plane and they have a fleet of 100

[@kingkrypto7729]

Sweet now we've actually got a reason for those space pistols with the rocket powered ammunition that never really worked out

[@mrm2542]

11:40 I watched that happen! I was in basic training and saw the Arrow launch into space. It lit up the sky like the sun. It was amazing

[@matthewgonzalez2088]

This was a great video, I'm just sad you didn't get to talk about the Space National Guard that comes with the Space Force. Could've had the New York Space Guard, the Florida Space Guard, even them good ol' boys, the Arkansas Space Guard doing Space Force things in space....above....individual states? I'm sure they'd sort it out.

[@vicpecka7356]

It'd probably make more sense for a Space Force Reserve. Some way to retain trained personnel after active duty.

[@RoyalDevin]

There is no such thing as a “Space Guard” only Air Guard units doing Space Missions. They all still wear Air Force name tapes

[@matthewgonzalez2088]

@@RoyalDevin Yes, that's the joke, though, in real terms, things like Legislative Proposal 480 could make the Space Guard a real thing, not that big NGB wouldn't manage and use the Space Guard for federal missions rather than state missions

[@GuckFoogle-pk6ns]

You know the first level of Halo 2? The Space National Guard would be the guys on the giant space gun platforms. One for each state.

[@derekmills4220]

I just recently found you. There is no way you wright this stuff yourself, its great!!!! Your comedy is on point. I appreciate the low key nods to people in the military community.

[@kjhmnn09]

Id love a 15 minute video expose on the total force policy so I can feel validation about being a reserve careerist. Plus, it'll help in my internet arguments. Informative video btw :)

[@illuminati5664]

It looks like our first Interplanetary colony will be a Missile base on Luna or Mars so we could shoot nukes at eachother with there just in case.

[@JinKee]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

[@jeffreycarman2185]

5:29 but this savings is predicated on the Space Force overtaking all of the space operations at the other branches of the military ceasing

[@theavaliengineer]

See: L5Resident's The Lunar War, FR0S7's SAVAGES series, & Mare Ignis (included in the video!) for people's renditions of hard sci-fi space war. I cannot recommend these enough. Solo artists are doing incredible work.

[@alisenoweirddudo6898]

For a video game I highly recommend "Children of a Dead Earth"

[@theavaliengineer]

@alisenoweirddudo6898 Yes!!! CoaDE player myself.

[@Gaming1Doge]

7:00 I honest to god thought those were the twin towers

[@AdventClover]

Shooting a satellite is just pure stupidity if anyone does decide to attack one. You’re asking a giant mess of metals flying all around earth and destroying more satellites and having it repeat the cycle entirely you can’t even put a satellite in space anymore.

[@timwithfriends7582]

I spot footage from the Shackleton Disaster, hell yeah

[@Thlormby]

MOON MARINES!!

[@ramon-8003]

"potato" -space force

[@je25ff]

My dad worked with SDI at the Pentagon. He had this like 4 inch thick stack of key cards for access it was wild.

[@DOAM1234]

While I love the idea of the Space Corp bullying the Airforce like the Marine Corp bullies the Navy, I think Space Force is a better name.

[@jasonhorton2434]

I expected this video would be a joke, but it's actually one of the best succinct videos on the topic.

[@Justin_Taylor]

Someone had to make it

[@AmoBishop]

First video of yours I've seen, very well done. Look forward to seeing more. You deserve MANY more subscribers. Keep it up man.

[@Joa904]

i'm not sure anybody has told you this yet but your channel is pretty flipping good - glad to have found it

[@allenpaley]

@9:43 "Semper Supra" A paramilitary toast for the "RIP Paul Walker" bumper sticker crew,

[@davidhenry7484]

This is a really good channel! Youre super entertaining. Subscribed!

[@ivorjawa]

9:52 it’d have been hilarious if they’d just gone with spaceman. Airman, seaman, spaceman. Spiffy.

[@theminormiracle]

Would you consider doing a video on the Army Combat Fitness Test, what prompted its introduction, what worked, what didn't, why was it controversial and so on?

[@phineascampbell3103]

And when you've done that, can you do one on the menu options during basic, and how it compares with when you're in, and which is better, how it's evolved over the decades, the philosophical and economic issues driving those changes, and if you think it's better if it's consistently rotated weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, and, or if it should be unpredictable, to help build that warrior spirit, ready to handle the unexpected and cope with adversity? Thankooop P.s. maybe you could, when it's popular, make it like a little mini series!! Get it animated, as well, by some sad cunt. Okay. x

[@Justin_Taylor]

Dude how did you manage to comment on this a full day before it went live lmao

[@theminormiracle]

@@Justin_Taylor haha this was up on your video essays playlist while being unlisted. I just happened to be clicking through it.

[@patrikcath1025]

MARE IGNIS MENTIONED (well, just showed off without credit but close enough for me)

[@darthtytherous2107]

Whatever happened to the Space Force TV show on Netflix? I remember it being a banger.

[@chewy_bucca]

It didn't make it past season 2 :(

[@coolcoolercoolest212]

Holy mackeral! Could you do a story about the 26th Space Agressor Squadron? Their wikipedia article says they have a history as old as the United States air force itself. Looks cool.

[@Halo56782]

11:56 Mare Ignis spotted

[@andyandersonvtv]

Just found your channel! Love your content

[@Jan_2000]

Hypothetical question - National Guard of every branch is supposed to cover their bases while the main branch is deployed - Meaning if the Space Force ever gets a National Guard, then they will be responsible for guarding all the ground bases once the space force gets deployed into... well, space - Does this mean the Army, Air Force and Marine Corpse are de facto the US Space Force National Guard? Similar to how Halo technically as UN Army, but they are merely plantary defense forces, while the UNSC Marine Corps is the one doing most of the warfare.

[@Dr_Larken]

7:16 During the STS-116 mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery in “I think” 2006, a piece of thermal paint no bigger than 1x1cm that insulated the shuttle's exterior broke off and struck the windshield. The impact created a pit about 0.02 inches 0.5mm/0.02in deep in the glass. However if that screw impacted the windshield and it was going at least escape velocity 11.2 km/s w/an est mass of 0.005 kg the kinetic energy would be roughly 112 Mega Joules!!! 7:20 This energy released would be more equivalent to several kilograms of TNT. A lot more than just a pound. Then again there’s multiple variables with multiple amount of energy upon impact of whatever

[@jamesivey5573]

The hasbro having their head up their ass about space “operation” made me lol silly

[@dmitriimuntean]

Great video bro, thanks!

[@joeblough4605]

I bet in the Space Force cafeteria (mom's basement) they have a vending machine full of different flavors of Zots and that crappy freeze dried ice cream from the 70s, and a claw machine with plush TeleTubbies, and digital watches that never get won.

[@cadetsparklez3300]

people make fun of it but to me satellites seem like the most obvious and destructive vector of attack

[@daringfungus]

rocket go vrrrroooooommmmm!!!!!!

[@Egro94]

I’m enlisting in to the SF in January for cyber defense, and am really excited even if I don’t get to actually go to space it’s cool to be in such a young branch of the military, especially one more focused on defense.

[@yukon09]

A THOUSAND SUNS IGNITE THE LUNAR SKIES

[@hatiskalli1954]

every1 wanna join the space force until the dark eldar show up

[@tHeInEvItAbLePaRtY]

Fighting in space would include things like pellet guns and scissors. You just need to pierce the enemy's suit.

[@aWildZentagram]

Us RTS nerds would say that the Battle Space Management part is the most interesting, lol

[@Trentoll]

Really glad youre getting sponsors your channel should have wayy more attention

[@GrannyDavisJr]

This channel needs way more recognition. This shit is fire

[@SenorGato237]

If it had been the Space Corps, they would have to be called Centurions. Which would be fucking awesome.

[@Dr_Larken]

7:16 During the STS-116 mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery in “I think” 2006, a piece of thermal paint no bigger than 1x1cm that insulated the shuttle's exterior broke off and struck the windshield. The impact created a pit about 0.02 inches 0.5mm/0.02in deep in the glass. However if that screw impacted the windshield and it was going at least escape velocity 11.2 km/s w/an est mass of 0.005 kg the kinetic energy would be roughly 112 Mega Joules!!! This is equivalent to the energy released by detonating several kilograms of TNT.

[@RedXlV]

It's not that the Space Force doesn't do anything, it's that the Air Force was already doing it just fine before Space Command was split into a separate service. Unless the Space Force grows to be *much* larger, I don't think it makes any sense to be a separate service instead of just folding the Navy and Army space assets into the Air Force. (Or fold them into the Navy if we're going to start having military spaceships. Because the Navy is the service that has institutional experience with large crewed vessels.)

[@arx3516]

They're actually developing their new line of mechs, if you're aged between 12 and 18 you can enlist for the role of pilot.

[@nikitatarsov5172]

Goddamn Power Ranger sounds now will haunt me for hours.

[@real1cytv]

13:40 so I actually think the context around this would be important, because what it sounds like is, that he actually said: We can't rely on protecting individual satellites, so let's just get more up there. To take your example, instead of one satellite covering each section of space, let's have like 10. Or 100. Or 1000. At some point it becomes too expensive and difficult to shoot them all down and bam, problem solved.

[@lightlegion_]

You’re doing something incredible!

[@jjlynchee961]

If we didn’t have a space force where would we get our new supplies of space cadets?

[@videre8884]

If you turn this Federation logo, which is now also the logo of the Space Force, over, you get a devil's head (It's actually a goat's head but the goat stands for Satan)

[@Civibivi]

Great video as always my guy!

[@spartanalex9006]

I can't wait though for when we do have a genuine need of Military Spacecraft and seeing what actually gets built at first. Imagine how those Early Nuclear Thermal Rocket Spacecraft will look.

[@mikemurphy5898]

You seem like a good guy, Justin so I subbed, because I've seen you on Task n Purpose. Changing your channel name to something besides your name might help...just a thought.

[@VaterOrlaag]

Space Force Guardians You finally went there, America. You finally went there.

[@RedXlV]

Guardians of the Galaxy

[@nbarrager]

Last year I was driving around cocoa beach and I accidentally drove up to the gates of what used to be Patrick AFB, and my jaw damn near hit the floor when I read the sign. Like "holy shit that fucker actually did it!"

[@whiskeythree1622]

The force that controls the high ground commands the battle. An adage as old as time. Space Force is our effort to make sure we control the high ground -- it will take legit manpower to get that done, not just space cadets. This is one theater we'd better own, for the sake of our kids & grandkids.

[@Facepalm-Guy]

When I'm an astronaut in the ISS that got time travelled to WW2 and I see a LOT of smoke in the sky in a German camp:

[@TrentPierce101]

Fantastic video, I’ll be sending this to anyone who asks what I do in the Space Force lol

[@SpecterWrithid]

Look, a good uniform might be the US might be the non-Multicam helicopter pilot fits. The green would provide a nice 'Futuristic feeling' but still be grounded due to all pilots wearing such a uniform. Of course this is NOT an applicable to being the Parade uniform but it would show how the Space Force run well, Space. Hat wear could be berets but like, Black is used by everyone and before everyone started using black it was used by Air Assault and it's just a whole thing so instead, wearing nothing might be better.

[@extraordinarytv5451]

Calling War Thunder highly optimized is defintley one of the takes ever.

[@rocko7711]

I love the StarCraft references

[@welporajackwelp4899]

So I can fire the ion cannon

[@TheFirstSpartan001]

Time traveller at 3:34

[@TheRealCreoleDeal]

4:42 damn we coulda had space Corps??

[@TheBeardedBrawler]

Hey man. So first, I'm really enjoying your videos. It's a nice blending of just straight facts, context, and humor - keep it up. Second I don't know if i have an idea but a question. MRAPS.I'm in an area where we are building a lot of MRAPs. We're building so many of them that I see tons of them sitting in a field doing nothing. Is that government waste or is that more "strategic reserve". Are there other things like that where we have things held in reserve for an upcoming, probable conflict. (April 2027 seems to be an important time in the future)

[@bluntcabbage6042]

If you live in an area where they're being produced, there's a good chance they're just waiting to be shipped out to recipients. Car factories also have huge lots full of cars seemingly rotting there but, really, they're just awaiting their ship-date. And yeah the DoD is probably producing tons of them, more than they need for current operations, because they want them to largely replace Humvees in frontline transport roles (which means they will need thousands upon thousands of them).

[@braydoxastora5584]

This guy is like the Jeramy Jahns of the military industrial complex

[@omarrp14]

With talks of a space force reserve force possibly in the works, I think it’s important to mention that a space force national guard would be stupid. Only a few states have anything to do with space force and only on a few bases. So a space guard would only apply to a few states, while a reserve would allow people to join from all states and then just travel. It would help with recruitment because if I live in one state why would I join the national guard of another state, while joining the reserve this thought wouldn’t cross my mind. Also it only having a reserve would simplify promotions/slots and funding. I say all this because of course some governs would push for a guard force because it would give them more funding & control/power. Space should only be a federal affair.

[@VRChat_Degen]

Dude that was like 3 minutes of ads and i pay for youtube premium. What are we even doing here

[@ChronicAndIronic]

the fact that Space Force doesn’t have Naval or Marine ranks is a crime. I’m trying to commission i. there hopefully 🤞

[@JinKee]

Captain Daniel Reynolds of the U.S. Space Force is the first Space Ranger, earning the Ranger tab after graduating from the Army's Ranger School in October 2023. Meanwhile the USMC has been pursuing the Suborbital Insertion of Troops and Drones under the SUSTAIN program and its successors.

[@robchr]

The nice thing about space is that there is a lot of it.

[@diepie5144]

Same thing every other force does in times of peace: Prepare.

[@philnorberts4324]

well well well haven’t I found an oddly specific obscure channel again

[@istooptoconcur1593]

I wonder if a key satylyte was hit by an asteroid or piece of spece debrie would everyone with nukes immediately have to fire like some deranged blind person with a shotgun surrounded by ferrets

[@humanlifeisasimulation]

“BUT NAY” 🔥🗣️

[@Justin_Taylor]

🤓☝️

[@MiaBella-b4r]

Space force reminds me of how small we all are

[@mkolsztyn]

video on youtube in 70 years: Will the Rocinante win with 2025 earth's space defence system?

[@navb0tactual]

I'm just waiting for UNSCDF to be created and challenge the USSF in a violent oiled up arm wrestle on Mars

[@nikitatarsov5172]

Space Force: We predict and monitor dangerous objects floating around ESA: * chuckles * Guys, we give you daily updates, but we monitor that stuff Space Force: But we figure in our secret spy satellites Roskosmos: You mean those we have pointed out once for a little diss? NASA: * cries silently *