Doing away with the Space Farce. A project for the Doggy Agency.

Logo of the Space Farce, which is part of the Department of the Air Force.  With the Department of the Air Force including the Space Farce, and the Department of the Navy including the Marine Corps, only the Department of the Army is left without two branches within it.  We'd fix that. . . but not by keeping the Space Farce around.

South African billionaire Elon Musk (who GOP darling           claimed was a Chinese stooge just two years ago) and Vivek Ramaswamy, who has a name and ethnicity that Donald Trump would have made fun of but for Ramaswany becoming a Trump stooge, are going to run the Doggy Agency which will study efficiency in government and make non binding recommendations.  A Doggy Caucus has been formed already, with one of Wyoming's Senators signing up for it, to support the anticipated brilliant musing of the super wealthy.

One thing they can do for efficiency sake is get rid of the Space Farce.  The axe should have been applied to that shrub already.

The enabling act for the  Space Farce provides, in its initial portion, as follows:

10 U.S. Code § 9081 - The United States Space Force (sic)

(a)Establishment.—

There is established a United States Space Force (sic) as an armed force within the Department of the Air Force.

(b)Composition.—The Space Force (sic) consists of—

(1)the Regular Space Force (sic);

(2)all persons appointed or enlisted in, or conscripted into, the Space Force (sic), including those not assigned to units, necessary to form the basis for a complete and immediate mobilization for the national defense in the event of a national emergency; and

(3)all Space Force (sic) units and other Space Force (sic) organizations, including installations and supporting and auxiliary combat, training, administrative, and logistic elements.

(c)Functions.—The Space Force (sic) shall be organized, trained, and equipped to—

(1)provide freedom of operation for the United States in, from, and to space;

(2)conduct space operations; and

(3)protect the interests of the United States in space.

(Added Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title XVI, § 1601(a)(1), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1718, § 2279c; amended Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title X, § 1081(a)(17), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1984; renumbered § 9081 and amended Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title IX, § 952(b)(3), (4), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1562; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 922(a), (b), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3806; Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1712(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 625.)

M'eh.

I looked it up as I was curious if the sitting President could simply decline to fund the stupid thing, or simply order it non staffed.  From looking at the statute pertaining to it, I think not.   Its goofballedness must be funded and the Boy Scouts of Space must be staffed.

Joe Biden, who never served in the military, left the Farce alone while he was in office, unfortunately.  Trump certainly will leave it in place as it was the darling of his silly little mind.  So, the super efficient businessman caused the formation of something we already had, separating it out from its parent agency, the Air Force, so we could have some degree of needless duplication.

So we're stuck with it for the time being.

But it really ought to go.

Air Force security team guarding junior bird men base, as they apparently can't guard it themselves.

Elon Musk has shown that at least to some degree when he voices an opinion and spreads it all over Twitter, he gets something like what he wants.  He killed a continuing resolution briefly, and of course he wanted Donald to be President, and therefore was successful at bot of those things.  If Musk opined that the Farce should be folded back into the Air Force (with its officers of course busted in grade if they volunteered to go into such an absurdity), he might be able to pull it off.

And that would save money.

Frankly, what might also save some money is putting the Air Force back into the Army, or at least the Department of the Army.  It doesn't entirely make sense that the Air Force is seperate from the ground forces, although you can make a logical argument for it.