“We kind of sat there with that for a second and what we realized is that the branch clearly is being conflated with a politician who certainly is controversial and divisive in a lot of ways, and it was just a little frustrating and disheartening, so it lent itself to a conversation about what this really means and what it really is - it being the Space Force - and being able to talk about that in a way,” Vazquez said. Yet when they shared the news with someone who should’ve realized the accomplishment, they were told, “That’s great, but I still don’t like President Trump.” Space Force and, you know, all of the accomplishments he’s had - let’s just say as everyone has, he has worked very hard to get to where he’s at,” Vazquez said. “My husband, who comes from a background that wouldn’t really lend itself to becoming a major in the U.S. He transferred from the Air Force to the Space Force in a ceremony in fall 2020. Vazquez’s husband is a major who helps train new Guardians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The conversation came just days after the Space Force was put back in the spotlight after a White House press conference, in which Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared to mock the service during a White House press conference with a bit of sarcasm that didn’t sit well with a lot of people who support the Space Force. And I’m like, ‘No, that’s really not what it’s about.’” “There’s the people that kind of roll their eyes like, ‘Oh, Space Force’ and then there’s the people that kind of start talking about boots on Mars and oh, you know, the space program going to the moon and stuff.
“There’s kind of two camps,” Alford said on a recent episode of The Spouse Angle podcast. Space Force spouses Cara-Lee Alford and Erin Vazquez have heard them all. Since the sixth branch of the military was established in December 2019 it has been the brunt of numerous jokes - from Star Wars and Star Trek comparisons to, more recently, cracks at its service members being called Guardians.
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