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First Space Force Joint PME grads honored at JHU
May 23, 2024
The Space Force has minted its first-ever graduates of the service’s debut of independent officer Intermediate Level Education (ILE) and Senior Level Education (SLE) programs.
“This is a major accomplishment for not only those graduating today, but for our Space Force, and for STARCOM,” said Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, Deputy Chief of Space Operations, Strategy, Plans, Programs and Requirements to graduates of the Schriever Space Scholars and West Space Scholars programs on May 21.
“One of the clear tasks for STARCOM during the early days of the Space Force was to create an independent Professional Military Education program.
You can go back to the initial planning guidance when the Space Force was established and see it there. From the very beginning, this program was a key priority for the Space Force, and it’s great to see it come to life.”
The Schriever Space Scholars Program is the Space Force’s independent ILE program, named for General Bernard Schriever. Likewise, the West Space Scholars Program is the Space Force’s SLE program, named for Dr. Gladys West.
These programs were specifically designed to deliver a graduate education to prepare mid-grade and senior uniformed and government civilian leaders for the evolving needs of the Space Force and Joint, Combined Force writ large, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Under the Space Force’s partnership with JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), select Space Force officers, as well as other service members and civilians, studied at SAIS in Washington D.C. in an in-residence program.
The first cohort of 49 total graduates were a mix of Space Force Guardians, joint representation from every U.S. military branch, Department of Defense civilians, and an international student, according to Space Delta 13 officials.
Scholars were competitively selected amongst hundreds of candidates, and both ILE and SLE consisted of rigorous academic requirements.
“Ten months, six core courses, four electives, 110 core-course seminars, an estimated 15,000 pages of reading. This required some impressive commitment from our graduates,” said Bratton.
The Schriever Space Scholars and West Space Scholars programs are ten-month programs where students receive Joint Professional Military Education I or II credit, and Johns Hopkins awards students a Masters in International Public Policy.
The Space Force’s second SSS and WSS classes, starting in July, aims to build upon the successes of its first year, said Space Force Col. Kirk Johnson, commandant of Detachment 3, responsible for administrative oversight and academic development.
“Our first cohort of students, and the faculty that supported them, made an impact here, shaping a unique Space Force culture,” said Johnson.
“We’re confident that our next students will carry the baton, with the help of our impressive cadre of faculty, as we consider the lessons learned from our first year.
We will continually implement new ideas and new thinking to solve the complex challenges of defending our nation’s interest in, from, and to space.”
For the first-ever graduates of the Space Force’s inaugural independent officer PME, the real test is yet to come, said Bratton.
“This is not over … the real work now begins,” said Bratton. “These were the first classes to complete the independent Schriever Space Scholars and the West Space Scholars programs, but more importantly, these are the first service members to go out and do something with what they’ve learned. The Space domain presents many challenges, but those graduating today will take what they’ve learned, and the relationships they have forged, to solve complex challenges standing in our way.
We need it all, and I’m confident in our nation’s defense with what is represented by our leadership graduates today.”
https://www.starcom.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3786558/first-space-force-joint-pme-grads-honored-at-jhu/
Report: The Pentagon Is Lying About UFOs
May 25th, 2024
WASHINGTON DC – Congress held a historic hearing on UFOs last July.
The hearing, which featured testimony from two former Navy fighter pilots and a former senior intelligence officer, garnered a notable amount of attention and interest not seen on Capitol Hill in years.
In one remarkable exchange, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) described how his office received a “protected disclosure” from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, regarding a January 2023 UFO incident over the Gulf of Mexico.
After being stonewalled by the Air Force, he delivered a tense, on-base reminder to the military about “how authorities flow in the United States of America.” The Air Force relented, permitting Gaetz to review sensor data gathered during the encounter.
According to Gaetz, fighter pilots tracked four unknown objects flying in a “clear diamond formation.”
Notably, the incident occurred on a training range typically conspicuously free of any airborne clutter.
Still imagery indicated that one of the objects demonstrated capabilities that Gaetz, who has served on the House Armed Services Committee for nearly a decade, was “not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.”
Radar data, according to Gaetz, showed that the four objects moved in a “very clear formation [with] equidistant” separation.
As Gaetz noted, and further documentation confirmed, the fighter jet’s radar stopped working as the jet closed within 4,000 feet of one of the objects.
The jet’s infrared camera malfunctioned too, requiring the pilot to take still images of one of the unknown objects manually.
In a case resolution report published last week, the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office concluded with “moderate” confidence that the object observed by the pilot was a balloon, likely “a large commercial lighting balloon.”
This so-called explanation insults the intelligence of any reader who takes a few moments to review the details of the incident. It did not convince the world’s most prominent UFO skeptic.
The pilot’s sketch of the object, described as akin to an “Apollo spacecraft,” bears no plausible resemblance to the design of any known industrial lighting balloon.
I called the Florida-based company that produces the high-end commercial lighting balloons alluded to by the UFO office. According to the firm, it is unheard of that such industrial-grade tethered balloons would spontaneously float away.
In a brief video, Emmy-winning lighting designer Matt Ford, who has used the lighting balloons in question, detailed the sheer absurdity of the Pentagon’s explanation.
The Pentagon, astoundingly, would have the American public believe that this seemingly impossible event occurred four times, simultaneously. Meanwhile, dual sensor malfunctions aboard the fighter jet, one of which occurred only in close proximity to the UFO, remain unexplained.
Perhaps most glaringly, the Pentagon UFO office does not address how multiple balloons, separated vertically by thousand-foot increments, could plausibly maintain a “very clear,” “equidistant” diamond formation at high altitudes in strong winds aloft.
https://mitechnews.com/guest-columns/report-the-pentagon-is-lying-about-ufos/
Clinical professor says solar system ‘full of life’ in staggering alien verdict
24/05/2024 - 16:08
Clinical Professor, Greg Autry has made the staggering claim that the solar system is "full of life" when asked if aliens exist.
Appearing on GBN America, Patrick asked the professor if he believes that "aliens exist", as speculation continues surrounding the existence of extraterrestrial life in space.
Autry responded: "I like to tell folks that I was the White House liaison at NASA. So you would think that if they did, I would know.
"And I'm going to tell you now, there are no intelligent aliens that have come to the Earth to visit us.
"We do think, though, and most scientists believe, that we'll find a solar system and a galaxy full of life.
"Probably not much of it is intelligent, but I believe somewhere that they are out there, they're not wasting their time spending the massive energy to come to the earth, only to hang outside of US military bases and hide badly. That doesn't seem realistic."
The professor discussed the space race and explained that while Joe Biden’s administration has carried on much of the work initiated by Trump, it has done so to a lesser extent.
“The Trump administration did more to advance space travel in the US since the 1960s, the Kennedy era. We committed to returning to the Moon.
“We established a US Space Force to focus our capabilities and people in that domain for success.
“We re-established the National Space Council. There were several other initiatives, it was a comprehensive move forward.
“Every Trump initiative in space has been continued in the Biden administration but with less enthusiasm.”
Asked why such operations are so important, he said: “When you think about the resource limitations which we’re beginning to see on Earth to some degree, you have to look to somewhere else.
“Space has a lot of the things we really need. We want to make sure we’re in a position to get to those resources before our competitors, frankly, China, tie them up.”
In 2020, Trump signed an executive order stating America has the right to explore and use resources from outer space.
It’s said that a number of important resources can be harvested on the Moon, which has not been ventured to since 1972.
The last crewed mission was Apollo 17 which broke records such as the longest space walk and the longest lunar landing.
According to Autry, Trump sought to do similar and could do the same if he regains the White House.
But he could face competition, with the professor claiming Russia and China are making significant strides.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/us-professor-staggering-alien-verdict