Trump asked the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to “immediately begin the process” of creating a sixth independent branch of armed forces dedicated to space warfare, but the creation of such a service lands just outside of his presidential powers, according to three experts who spoke with the PBS NewsHour. “We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force. We must have American dominance in space,” Trump said at the event. “When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. This important policy milestone was overshadowed by the fervor surrounding Trump’s request for a “Space Force.” Noctua, Latin for owl, is a constellation which represents STARCOM’s wisdom in training, and Saggita, Latin for arrow, represents STARCOM’s constant readiness.On Monday, President Donald Trump met with the National Space Council so he could sign an executive order meant to manage and clean up junk in space. The constellations of Noctua (Noc-tua) and Saggita (sa-jit-ta) represent Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War. The handle of the bow is made from lightning in homage to the Space Warfare Center and Space Innovation and Development Center’s historic work to bring space to the fight in the sea, air and land domains, and linking the same to STARCOM’s new role of developing and fielding forces to fight and win in the space domain. The dark and light shades of grey within the delta embody the 24/7 operations of the Space Force, while the placement and upward orientation of the delta reveals the central role of the Space Force in defending the space domain. Air Force space community, and symbolizes change and innovation. The delta is taken from the USSF Seal the Delta evokes historic ties to the earliest days of the U.S. This is the same star from the USSF logo. SIGNIFICANCE: Polaris symbolizes the guiding light of security and defending the space domain. It was re-designated the Space Warfare Center Jand then the Space Innovation and Development Center Mar 1, 2006. The SIDC was initially constituted as the USAF Space Warfare Center Oct. Comprised of five subordinate DELs, STARCOM carries the organizational lineage and heritage of the Space Innovation and Development Center which was inactivated in 2013. STARCOM was activated as the Space Force's third field command on 23 August 2021. The STARCOM HQ staff will be a combination of existing manpower transferred from SpOC and new authorizations to be added over the next several years, which requires Congressional approval. Delta 1 will be located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Upon approval by the Secretary of the Air Force, the locations for STARCOM headquarters and each of the deltas, except for Delta 1, will be determined following the Department of the Air Force’s Strategic Basing Process. In order to create a leaner, more agile force, the USSF eliminated two levels of command that exist within the Air Force and now consists of: USSF Headquarters (at the Pentagon with the other services), FIELDCOMs, Space Deltas (DELs), and Squadrons. The USSF has three intermediate-level Field Commands (FIELDCOMs) within its four-tiered organizational structure: Space Operations Command (SpOC), Space Systems Command (SSC), and STARCOM. Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) exists to prepare combat-ready USSF forces to fight and win in a contested, degraded, and operationally-limited environment through the deliberate development, education and training of space professionals development of space warfighting doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures and the test and evaluation of USSF capabilities.
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