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Marine Corps Forces Space Command?

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
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They are going to have to add some lyrics to The Marines Battle Hymn Song when they reach the Moon. 😄

serf

https://www.spacecom.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2415093/marine-corps-commandant-directs-activation-of-space-service-component/

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. , Nov. 13, 2020 —

Gen. David H. Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps, directed the activation of a new Marine Corps forces command subordinate to the newest unified combatant command, United States Space Command, effective Oct. 1, 2020. 

Marine Corps Forces Space Command, created from the existing space expertise in Marine Corps Forces Strategic Command, will focus on providing space operational support to the Fleet Marine Force while building a convergence capability to increase warfighter lethality.

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Matthew G. Glavy is the commander of MARFORSPACE. He is dual-hatted as the commander of Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command. Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, will initially serve as the home for MARFORSPACE.

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    hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,183 ✭✭✭✭

    wonder if this has anything to do with all the TV commercials on right now, almost every break there is a Marine recruitment commercial, I haven't noticed any Army, Navy, or other branch for the last few weeks, odd enough my wife even mentioned it the other night as we were watching TV......

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