Starship troopers

Published October 30, 2020 3:00am ET



PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado — President Trump’s creation of the United States Space Force may have been met with humorous curiosity, but the branch’s inaugural chief of space operations, Gen. Jay Raymond, has no problem with the venture’s image.

Asked about the Netflix comedy series starring Steve Carell, Raymond only seemed slightly irked. “Yeah. You know, I have seen it,” he told the Washington Examiner. “And so, my take on it is: It’s a really cool time to be in the space business. They’re making television shows about us, right?”

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