Fwiw me and the various other Naval Officers on the USSF HQ staff repeatedly recommended Navy ranks in both mildly joking and serious ways last year. A lot of that stuff was close hold at the 3/4 star level and the Service Department level and we didn’t hear about it until the press release. ?
Can confirm they give our AF Comms as awards, similar to Marines getting Navy Comms. Getting that into my official record was a gigantic pain in the ass with SECNAV awards folks.
Oh and their entire existence is a gigantic waste of money and resources, and probably the best example of DC’s dysfunction. Lobbyists/contractors with former Flags on staff float the cleaving off of the space directorate of USAF so they can have their 4 stars sit in budget meetings with the AF 4 stars because god forbid a 3 star attends a meeting with a 4 star. An administration with a knack for branding thinks it sounds cool and Congress trades it for paid family leave, with the assurances made NRO, NGA, NASA, and elsewhere that a “Space Force” won’t have anything to do with them. So we have an entire fucking military department who’s entire job is GPS sats, (some) comm sat, and radar stations to monitor space. But hey, everyone got rich, so fuck it.