The US Space Force's mission is to protect American space assets. As such, Space Force personnel are adequately compensated for their important mission to protect US space-related infrastructure. A bit about the importance of America's satellites The United States military, commercial industry, and private citizens rely on space-based assets.
Industry and society use satellites to relay information to various terrestrial nodes to facilitate communication, store and utilize important information, and perform simple tasks such as GPS navigation. Within the last 24 years, the US, India, Russia and China have all demonstrated the ability to target and successfully destroy satellites. According to the Congressional Research Office , the US military operates 246 satellites.
These assets are used for targeting, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, observation, relaying secret information, ballistic early warning, and navigation. Within the last 24 years, the US, India, Russia, and China have all demonstrated the ability to target and successfully destroy satellites. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (pun intended) to see that it is now, and will be for the foreseeable future, open season on satellites if a war breaks out on Earth.
The Cold War was all about competition, for the first time this included competing for dominance in space. Enter America's Space Force Given the reliance on satellites for US military operations, the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act establ.
