Will America someday have a sixth branch of the military: the U.S. Space Force?

International laws, and treaties prevent the militarization of space. As long as those laws, and treaties exist, no.

Yes............the Stargate Command, located inside Cheyenne Mountain.

Weren't you paying attention to the show?

Up and Away with the Gay Space Rangers!

The United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) was a Unified Combatant Command of the United States Department of Defense, created in 1985 to help institutionalize[citation needed] the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces. The Commander in Chief of U.S. Space Command (CINCUSSPACECOM), with headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, also functioned as the Commander in Chief of the binational U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (CINCNORAD), and for the majority of time during USSPACECOM's existence also as the Commander of the U.S. Air Force major command Air Force Space Command. Military space-operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The U.S. military has relied on satellite communications, intelligence, navigation, missile-warning and weather systems in areas of conflict since at least the early 1990s, including in the Balkans, in Southwest Asia and in Afghanistan. Space systems have since then been considered[by whom?] as indispensable providers of tactical information to U.S. forces.
As part of an ongoing initiative to transform the U.S. military, on June 26, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that U.S. Space Command would merge with USSTRATCOM. The Unified Command Plan directed that Unified Combatant Commands be capped at ten, and with the formation of the new United States Northern Command, one would have to be deactivated in order to maintain that level. Thus the USSPACECOM merged into an expanded USSTRATCOM, which would retain the U.S. Strategic Command name and would be headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The merger aimed to improve combat effectiveness and to speed up information collection and assessment needed for strategic decision-making.
Within STRATCOM, responsibilities for space were first held by the Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike until July 2006 when the command was divided. As of 2016 the Joint Functional Component Command for Space oversees U.S. military space operations.
HR2810 FY18 could re-establish the United States Space Command as a subordinate unified command under the United States Strategic Command not later than January 1, 2019. This bill also includes the creation of the United States Space Corps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Command

Yeah whatever.

Its possible, but unlikely.



Then again, stranger things have happened.

Would a member of th3 U.S. Space Corps be called a U.S. Spaceman?

No.

I doubt it. War in space is not very practical. Possible, but just not smart.

Perhaps if we have colonies in orbiting space stations, maybe there would be a reason for a space force. But there's plenty of room up there, and you don't need a force in space to conduct a space war (it can be done from the Earth).

The further away from Earth you go, the more impractical space war becomes. Habitats do not have to be anywhere near each other. That would be the best way to reduce the risk of war.

I think they are a sub department of the Air Force.

We already have it.

In reference to whoever posted about the former United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), that was a DoD combatant command structure composed of assets from the various branches of the US military. It wasn't it's own military branch.

The US Air Force already possess a space warfare mission, and a "US Space Force" would be completely redundant, and a waste of taxpayer resources and public funding.

Maybe can’t see into the future sorry 😐

How do you know they don't already have that?

No. The Navy will operate the ships.