Training the Next Field of Space Warriors

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April 9th, 2019 by Walter Pincus, | 0 Comments

The U.S. is trying to quickly gear up the nation’s ability to fight in space and our best clues into just how they’re planning to do it, are coming from congressional testimony.

“Space is a warfighting environment just as is air, land and sea,” Air Force Gen. John W. Raymond, Commander, Air Force Space Command, told a House Armed Services subcommittee April 3, in supporting $14 billion in the proposed fiscal 2020 Defense budget for space activities, which represents a 17 percent increase from the current year.

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