Members of the US Space Force will now be called ‘Guardians’

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Members of the Affiliated States Space Force will officially be pegged "Guardians", equal to an hype Vice President Mike Pence made-up at an event celebrating the noncivil branch's one year anniversary.

The alignment traces the name "Guardians" inadvertently to an old Air Force Space Command proverb from 1983, "Guardians of the High-reaching Frontier," equal to a snip column on the US Space Force website. While a unshared entity, Space Force is part of the Air Force per its establishment with the National Palladium Budgeting Act.

As it exists today, Space Force is mostly a rebrand of Air Force Space Command, loosely with the hierarchy to make decisions contained from the Air Force. Space Force cadre conjointly mostly divulged from the Air Force, loosely there's been notable transfers -- like astronaut Mike Hopkins -- who've joined from unneeded government organizations. Unsuitable Hopkins' grander employer NASA, Space Force is slighter edgy with exploring space, than it is decision-making it and sustentation American avails like satellites.

Choosing "Guardians" as an official name comes with some unerring (and maybe intended) pop dexterity associations. There's Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, which introduced Curiosity blur hearers to the "cosmic" side of the Curiosity universe. And from the apple of video games, Guardians conjointly show up contiguously in Euthanasia 2 as undead warriors answerable with defending the Last Flagstone on Earth from conflicting enemies.

This wouldn't be the first time that Space Force appeared to be cribbing from pop culture, either. When the alignment revealed the official logo, many sharpened out its similarities to the Starfleet euphuism used in the television silkiness Star Trek. The US Space Force later attempted to compare that it was inspired by earlier Air Force Space Command logos rather than the hit series.

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Whatever the source of the name, you can count on Space Force concreteness a lot increasingly namby-pamby than any of the pop dexterity we acquaintanceship with it. It may be a bit of a branding exercise to satisfy the President, loosely the Biden bosses appears to have no plans to novelty course. With Space Force and recent work to return to the moon, the US is haulage plane increasingly on space kidney into the abutting decade.

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