# The U.S. Space Force now has an official song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402 "2022-09-28T17:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/1 "2022-09-28T17:31:05Z")
And I think it would have been perfect…as perhaps the theme song for the Steve Carrell comedy _Space Force_. The song starts about 1 minute 45 sec into the video. [The U.S. Space Force Reveals its Official Song - SCIFI.radio](https://scifi.radio/2022/09/28/the-u-s-space-force-reveals-its-official-song/?fbclid=IwAR3U0R6uUzX24CNCpOY95nwZ1Xa_nOmaGuQF24Zx_KAZ6LscttAsEHfNG0I) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/2 "2022-09-28T17:34:44Z")
“We’re the space force and we’re high!” ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/3 "2022-09-28T17:35:42Z")
So this isn’t a joke? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/4 "2022-09-28T17:42:56Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > So this isn’t a joke? - It’s hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/5 "2022-09-28T18:12:44Z")
It’s derivative melodically, and the lyrics sound like they were picked out of a bag of generic patriotic phrases. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/6 "2022-09-28T18:16:00Z")
actual lyrics: We’re the mighty watchful eye Guardians beyond the blue The invisible front line Warfighters brave and true. Boldly reaching into space there’s no limit to our sky Standing guard both night and day We’re the Space Force from on high. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/7 "2022-09-28T18:16:38Z")
The Steve Carrell show could hardly have done worse. Incidentally, when did the word “warfighter” become a thing? It sounds like something you’d come up with if you wanted to say “soldier” but you’d just had a stroke and had a weirdly specific anomic aphasia. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/8 "2022-09-28T18:17:42Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > when did the word “warfighter” become a thing? Maybe it’s really “warf hider”? OK, I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/9 "2022-09-28T18:18:11Z")
Worf Rider? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/10 "2022-09-28T18:20:16Z")
Well, it was a country singer who volunteered. I wasn’t expecting much. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/11 "2022-09-28T18:24:16Z")
As the old joke goes, “No-I’m a frayed knot!” [Space Force Song (af.mil)](https://www.music.af.mil/space-force-song/) ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/12 "2022-09-28T18:25:28Z")
To be fair the Air Force song is hardly better. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/13 "2022-09-28T18:35:05Z")
Bullshit! “Up In The Air, Junior Birdmen” is Bach compared to that tripe. Would you believe P.D.Q. Bach? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/14 "2022-09-28T18:36:24Z")
Meh. If it were up to me, I would’ve used an re-titled version of Brian May’s [Star Fleet](https://youtu.be/16UypAOUMXk) with appropriately modified lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/15 "2022-09-28T18:37:36Z")
When I hear this, I visualize a chorus line of scantily-clad dancers. Between verses, I expect long instrumentals for tap-dance routines. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/16 "2022-09-28T18:46:18Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > > [@RickJay](#): > > > > when did the word “warfighter” become a thing? > > Maybe it’s really “warf hider”? > > OK, I got nothing. Maybe it was supposed to be “Starfighter” and then they realized we haven’t really been to the stars yet. Or that you can’t actually fight a star. Yeah, I got nothing either. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/17 "2022-09-28T18:50:19Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Maybe it was supposed to be “Starfighter” and then they realized we haven’t really been to the stars yet. The U.S.A.F. retired the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter back in 1969. Not exactly a look to the future. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/18 "2022-09-28T18:51:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > you can’t actually fight a star Sure you can. A lot of those military folks could probably take out Salma Hayek or Ryan Reynolds. But Betelgeuse? Not so much. Not even Sol. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/19 "2022-09-28T18:52:17Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > > > > [@RickJay](#): > > > > > > when did the word “warfighter” become a thing? > > > > Maybe it’s really “warf hider”? > > > > OK, I got nothing. > > Maybe it was supposed to be “Starfighter” and then they realized we haven’t really been to the stars yet. Or that you can’t actually fight a star. > > Yeah, I got nothing either. - They should have gone with Gunstar. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402/20 "2022-09-28T19:00:00Z")
“Warfighter” sounds cooler than soldier amongst the tacti-cool set. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-space-force-now-has-an-official-song/972402.md?page=2)