US Space Force Releases First Recruitment Video, Acknowledges Netflix Comedy ‘Space Force’

The newly-created U.S. Space Force has released its first recruitment video, CNET reports:
In a video posted Wednesday to Twitter showing rockets, mission control-types rooms and U.S. Space Force members in spacesuits, a voice-over says, “maybe your purpose on this planet isn’t on this planet.”
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said during a livestream Wednesday that so far recruitment hasn’t been a problem for the Space Force. “There’s been an avalanche of applicants.” This sixth branch of the US military was established in December 2019 and will be operational by mid-2021. CNET notes the video appeared “a day after Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming comedy Space Force. And the leader of the U.S. Space Force says he’s looking forward to the Netflix comedy co-created by Steve Carell. “The one piece of advice I’d give to Steve Carell is to get a haircut,” Gen. Jay Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the nonprofit Space Foundation. Raymond is bald, and joked that Steve Carell is “looking a little too shaggy if he wants to play the Space Force chief.”