I can’t decide which is more depressing: Donald Trump’s insistence on re-branding Air Force Space Command as “US Space Force”, changing the labels and re-shuffling the org chart a bit to no real purpose, just so that he could take credit for “creating the US Space Force”…
…or…
All the snide, sneering deplora-tarians falling all over themselves to display their utter ignorance of history and tradition, their inability to comprehend anything they can’t relate to some bit of pop-culture trivia, and their disdain for any sort of detail or nuance.
The NASA “meatball” logo was a de novo creation. It inspired many imitators, both IRL and in skiffy TV and movies.
The Star Trek logo is pretty much a lift from (or homage to) the NASA meatball.
The Air Force Space Command logo is inspired by the NASA meatball (and possibly by Trek, though it was created in 1982, well before the Trek logo being used for comparison here).
The current Space Force logo is clearly and unambiguously based on its AF Space Command predecessor:
…which is entirely appropriate, since “Space Force” is mostly just a re-labelling of AF Space Command assets.
Doesn’t have fuck-all to do with Trump or Star Trek, except in the overheated imaginations of some Trump opponents.
Likewise, all the merriment around “space camo” uniforms descends from a DOD tweet about “getiing new NAME TAPES.”
Not “new uniforms.” It’s still the same people wearing the same uniforms, doing the same jobs as before - they’re just swapping the “US Air Force” name tapes for “US Space Force” name tapes.
Which should tell you most of what you need to know of “Space Force” - nothing really new, just a change in labels.
(Now you may wonder why USAF Space Command duty personnel wear woodland camo in the first place, but they’ve been doing it for more than three decades, so you’d have to ask them. Probably the same reason the USAF doesn’t wear blue sky and clouds as camo.)
