Ellsworth may have future in 'space force'

Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City was an alternative emergency landing site for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Transportation System.

In a message to all airmen sent Tuesday night, service brass including Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein confirmed that, as rumored, the new "space force" would be established as a military service inside the Air Force. [Air Force Issues First Guidance to Troops About Space Force]

A former US Representative from New Mexico's 1st District with nefarious ties to Sandia Labs and Gazprom, Dr. Wilson was defeated in the US Senate race by Martin Heinrich then in 2013 became president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City.

She recently addressed the sparsely-attended conference of the Western Governors Association in Rapid.

A big challenge, she said, is modernizing the force’s aging fighter jets, bombers, helicopters and space assets while simultaneously modernizing its soldiers, too. [Wilson lays out modernization plans for Air Force]

But she neglected to mention (publicly anyway) the report that some 126 bases in the US have water supplies contaminated with potentially harmful levels of perfluorinated compounds.

Ellsworth is on the list and Denny Daugaard hosted the gala. Mountain Home AFB in Idaho is on the list and Gov. Butch Otter was in Rapid. Peterson AFB, Colorado is on the list and Gov. Hickenlooper was there. Hill AFB in Utah is on the list and Gov. Herbert was there. FE Warren in Wyoming is on the list and Gov. Mead heard Wilson's talk. Malmstrom in Montana and Minot in North Dakota aren't on the list but Govs. Bullock and Burgum were in Rapid. Ellsworth is home to a Superfund site so are the bases who participate in the Combat Raider exercises over most of those governors' states.

Republican Burgum just got dinged for inappropriate use of the state plane. He has committed troops to the Trump Organization at the southern border while Bullock has refused.

But how i do go on.

Donald Trump may be a career criminal, a crisis actor and this space force dealio is hardly his idea but it does make one wonder what intel he's seen that would make Heather Wilson want to accelerate it after she opposed it. The 45th Space Wing has been around since my dad's days in the USAF. Los Alamos and Sandia both do mountains of work for the Department of Defense.

I actually emailed Senator Hillary Clinton after the 9/11 events that an Astral Trade Center built around a space elevator constructed on the property once occupied by a center of world trade in New York City might have made a fitting memorial. Build a space port at Ellsworth instead of practice-bombing parts of four states and creating radicalized survivors by actually bombing them.

If Trump doesn't destroy the planet there will come a time when it will be routine to launch waste too hot for humans to handle into the sun and space cowboys will be living in western South Dakota like there are at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

It's #NationalSelfieDay! We think #space is the best place to take a selfie! Where are you taking your selfie? #SpaceSelfie

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— AF Space Command (@AFSpace) June 21, 2018