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The Space Force's first combat operations as a new service included providing early warning of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force missile strikes against U.S. troops at Al Asad Airbase on 7 January 2020 through the 2nd Space Warning Squadron's Space Based Infrared System. [75]
Seal of the United States Space Force: Founded: 20 December 2019; 5 years ago () Country United States: Type: Space force: Role: Space warfare: Size: 9,400 military personnel [1] Part of: Armed forces of the United States [2] Department of the Air Force: Headquarters: The Pentagon Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. [3] Motto(s)
1857–1858 First War of Indian Independence: Mughal Empire: British East India Company: Fall of the Mughal Empire; transferral of East India Company's power to the government of Britain: 1859 Second Italian War of Independence
A space force is a military branch of a nation's armed forces that conducts military operations in outer space and space warfare. The world's first space force was the Russian Space Forces , established in 1992 as an independent military service.
July 18 – The Utah Expedition leaves Fort Leavenworth, effectively beginning the Utah War. August 3 – Andrew B. Moore is elected the 16th governor of Alabama. August 24 – Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company suspends payments, leading to the Panic of 1857. September 11 – Mountain Meadows massacre in Utah.
This is a list of space forces, units, and formations that identifies the current and historical antecedents and insignia for the military space arms of countries fielding a space component, whether an independent space force, multinational commands, joint command, or as a part of another military service.
The Space Force has no command echelon equivalent of the U.S. Air Force′s numbered air forces, [25] so the next command echelon below field commands is the delta, a single level of command which combines the wing and group command echelons found in the U.S. Air Force. [25]
The Battle of Gettysburg, the deadliest battle in both the American Civil War and all of American military history with over 50,000 combined Union and Confederate casualties, fought over three days between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, depicted in an 1887 portrait by Thure de Thulstrup