US Space Force deploys to Arabian Peninsula

Colonel Todd Benson, the US Air Force Central Command director of space forces, centre, leads airmen through their enlistment ceremony as they became members of the Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar (Staff Sgt Kayla White/US Air Force via AP)

The newly formed US Space Force has deployed troops to a vast new frontier: the Arabian Peninsula.

Space Force now has a squadron of 20 airmen stationed at Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment.