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Today marks a significant milestone for the U.S. Space Force," said Raymond. "The stand-up of STARCOM is a critical step in aligning education, training, and test and evaluation units under one command, in support of the nation’s newest military Service. With our three field commands and commanders now in place, we continue to transition from inventing the force to integrating it, with a targeted focus on developing combat-ready space forces and delivering critical space warfighting capabilities to joint and coalition forces."
During the ceremony, STARCOM deltas – the five subordinate O-6 commands – were also activated. Deltas are comprised of squadrons focused on specific tactics.
- Space Delta 1 – Training: provides initial skills training, specialized warfighter follow-on training, and advanced training events and courses in order to prepare USSF forces, and designated joint and allied partners, to prevail in a contested, degraded, operationally-limited, all-domain environment.
- Space Delta 10 – Doctrine and Wargaming: develops USSF doctrine and tactics, conducts the USSF Lessons Learned Program, and executes and supports wargames in order to posture USSF forces, and designated joint and allied partners, to prevail in a CDO, all-domain environment.
- Space Delta 11 – Range and Aggressor: delivers realistic, threat-informed test and training environments through the provision of live, virtual, and constructive range and combat replication capability in order to prepare USSF, joint, and allied forces to prevail in a CDO environment.
- Space Delta 12 – Test and Evaluation: prepares USSF forces to prevail in a contested, degraded, and operationally limited environment through the independent test and evaluation of USSF capabilities and delivery of timely, accurate, and expert information in support of weapon system acquisition, operational acceptance, and readiness decisions.
- Space Delta 13 – Education: delivers institutional developmental education, develops U.S. Space Force officer accessions and executes advanced education programs in order to prepare USSF forces and designated joint and allied partners to prevail in a CDO, all-domain environment.
The TraceTag device used by the school was made by a company called Triax. According to their website, the device was created for the purpose of "maintaining social distancing guidelines" and to provide "real-time insight into whether these guidelines are being observed" for construction and other manufacturing businesses, but makes no mention of school use on the website.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow
EtMN, re “ISIS-K”, I wonder if that was code to activate the Club K container missiles?
Note that wiki page has been edited 100 times this month alone.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province
Some media sources also use the terms ISK, ISISK, IS-KP, ISIS-K or Daesh-Khorasan in referring to the group.
IS-K founding emir, Hafiz Saeed Khan, was killed by a United States airstrike in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on July 26, 2016. Following Khan’s death, IS-K has had three subsequent emirs, all of whom have also been eliminated by the United States in targeted strikes: Abdul Hasib was killed in April 2017; Abu Sayed was killed on July 11, 2017; and most recently, Abu Saad Orakzai was killed on August 25, 2018. These leaders, as well as those at the district and provincial levels, generally possessed meaningful experience with local militant movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan prior to joining IS-K.
IS-K seeks to establish a Caliphate beginning in South and Central Asia, governed by sharia law, which will expand as Muslims from across the region and world join.
Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) (from 2018)
originally posted by: FlyingFox
New.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
So a couple of things happened today I feel are important that I haven't seen mentioned on here yet. No links as this was reported live on air by Fox.
1. We have already started pulling the past of our troops out of Afghanistan. A full five days early, and I say five because the military only needs 48 hours to pull their troopers out.
2. Biden has betrayed our G7 allies twice in one week now. By removing the troops he is violating an agreement the G7 had to extend past the deadline if necessary to get the citizens of these countries out.
Now, these other countries rely on the US to run the show in Afghanistan. They rely on our intelligence network over there and our weapons systems both. When we pull out, we aren't just abandoning our own citizens (unacceptable), but also the citizens of our allies' countries as well. This is an absolute travesty. Imo, these other countries will likely start distancing themselves from the US over this. Why wouldn't they? They have to answer to their own citizens for this crap. We may see diplomatic relations severed over this stuff.
Joe Biden has placed this country in a very dangerous situation.
With each day Storm Rider's (thanks cranky) words loom larger and larger. With Biden stabbing his allies in the back twice in one week, China is likely thinking the time to move against Taiwan is now. The US would be powerless to do anything about it because our allies will not have our back.
We are moving rapidly towards a war footing. And a major war.
originally posted by: RookQueen
a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow
ETMN Click the links you posted and see if they are working like you think they are plz. When I hit the MC link it isn't him and you have to scroll up and click on the speaker you'd like to hear. Did you mean the one on 8-24 or 8-23?