The Masters of your Universe is the US Air Force.

[Ichingcarpenter]

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA
The US: Your masters of the universe
By William J Astore

When I first joined the US Air Force, its mission statement was straightforward: to fly and fight. The recruiting slogan was upbeat: the air force was "a great way of life" and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program I enrolled in was the "gateway to a great way of life".

Mission statements and slogans are easy to poke fun at and shouldn't, perhaps, be taken too seriously. That said, the people who develop them do take them seriously, which is why they can't be ignored.

Consider the air force's new slogan: "Air Force - Above All."

Okay, I admit it's catchy, even cute, if, that is, you can get past the "high ground" conceit and ignore the Germanic uber alles


overtones. Its literal meaning is obvious enough and it does fit with the air force's most basic precept, that mastery of the air means mastery of the ground.

Yet today's air force seeks more than that. It wants to extend its "mastery" to space ("the new high ground") and even to cyberspace. This is yet another disturbing manifestation of our military's quest for "full spectrum dominance", achieved at debilitating cost to the American taxpayer - and a potentially destabilizing one to the planet.



Striving to be "above all" everywhere is ambitious to the point of folly. By comparison, the slogans of the air force's sister services seem modest. The poor, embattled army is simply "Army Strong". The navy now promises to "Accelerate Your Life". Yawn. The US Marines Corps, always faithful, refuse to tinker with their slogan, which remains: "The Few. The Proud. The Marines." Meanwhile, the air force soars above such slavish adherence to tradition - as well as any reasonable sense of boundaries or restraint.


Air Force Communications Squadrons editing Wikipedia


And some of the edits add evidence to the claims that Dominionists and other extremists in the Christian Right are creeping into it. Creation Science before: Creation science is the attempt to justify a literal interpretation of the Biblical account of creation with supposedly scientific evidence.And after someone in the 56th Com Squadron

http://digg.com/security/Air_Force_Communications_Squadrons_editing_Wikipedia


Yes I'm the same guy.

[Speck Tater]

1. All your base are belong to us. NT

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I've seen a couple of the USAF's recruiting ads on TV recently that made my stomach turn.

[Echo In Light]

3. The one re "keeping an eye on the enemy at all times" is spooky

[Johonny]

4. ?

Air Force has always had an active space program. Indeed it launches vastly more space vehicles than NASA. Without the Air Forces commitment to space the US space program would still be back in the days of late 60s early 70s technology.