SE4 and the Navy

Possum · #1 February 24th, 2001, 12:36 AM

Good man, Seawolf, thanks for taking it in the humorous way

About the aliens question - here in San Diego, there is a navy command called SPAWAR, which stands for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. I believe these are the same folks formerly known as NRaD, and therefore organized under NOSC, the Naval Ocean Systems Command. Whew, acronym city!

Yeah, I used to work for a defense contractor, how'd you guess?

Anyway, the only point to all this is just that these organisations appear to already be in place.

Derek · #2 February 24th, 2001, 12:39 AM

Of course the Navy would run space combat. They are allready adept at running ships in areas where there is no air (aka submarines, more properly called boats, not ships)

Besides all of sci-fi always has the Space Navy, not the Space Air Farce (oops, I mean Force, not farce) and we just have to stick wwith tradition.

Besides the Navy makes good bus drivers for us Marines.

Derek

Triumvir Emphy · #3 February 24th, 2001, 12:39 AM

i do believe the SP in SPAWAR stand for Special, and not space,.. but as i was just a lowly electrician i could be wrong.

raynor · #4 February 24th, 2001, 12:45 AM

Here's a pretty cool website:
http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace/

Definitely not focused on defending against little green men. But the US does plan to have a fairly comprehensive space based component to the armed services in place by, at the latest, 2020, I think I read once?

greghacke · #5 February 24th, 2001, 01:42 AM

Defense contractor... what a job. Can't complain, the company I work for is the 8th largest defense contractor in the US.

SPAWAR is space, not special. All SpecOps are run out of the SpecWar centers in MacDill, Langley and Bragg.

Atrocities · #6 February 24th, 2001, 01:44 AM

Oh the humor.

apache · #7 February 24th, 2001, 01:54 AM

I do believe that there would have to be an entirely new branch of the armed services for space warfare. No earth based branch has any experince flying spaceships, not the Navy, Airforce, Army, or Marines. I think the new branch would be highly based on NASA requirements, except civilians would obviously not be allowed into some space warfare branch.
Thus, only the best and brightest with previous experience in flight and the military would be allowed into the new branch. Sure it probably would be called the Space Navy or something, with a Space Marines inside the organization, but they would not be simply Navy and Marine troops sent up to space.

[This message has been edited by apache (edited 23 February 2001).]