These US Air Force Cadets plan to conquer space- one day, anyway.

The US Air Force Academy is aiming higher every day, this time as they discuss putting US Space Force bases on the Moon.
While the USSF is currently still within the USAF, just shy of 10% of the upcoming USAFA graduates will be commissioned to help lead it.

As such, an academy group dubbed the Institute for Applied Space Policy and Strategy (IASPS) began looking for ideas to implement more serious space operations ideas once they level up to ranks that allow them to propose such things.

According to Science, one such discussion with current IASPS President, Cadet J. P. Byrne revealed many exciting ideas for the future.

Byrne, who graduates in 2021, wants to see more focus on space as the world’s powers continue to eye the vast frontier as a new area of operations.

“Our main goal is to develop space-minded cadets not just for the Air Force, but also for the Space Force,” he told Science. It’s really important to know how space works, and we like to think we drive the conversation for space information in an unclassified setting.”

From astropolitics to mining and other considerations, the discussions often go beyond simply putting weapons in space.

“Many people see space as just supporting Earth in the air, land, and sea domains,” Byrne said. “We’re really thinking that until space moves away from this supporting domain, it will only be an extension of Earth politics.”

Whatever the case, these cadets are proving they have the right stuff needed to lead tomorrow’s US Armed Forces, no matter where the battlespace is.

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