By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

This will take some time to register with me.

Vice President Mike Pence has announced that members of the newly created U.S. Space Force will be called “guardians.”

That’s right. They will be called guardians the way the Army refers to soldiers, the Navy has its sailors, the Air Force has airmen, the Marines have, um, Marines and the Coast Guard has Coast Guardsmen.

The Space Force deploys guardians to defend us against … what? Extraterrestrials such as Martians or the Man in the Moon?

As Politico reports: “It is my honor on behalf of the president of the United States to announce that henceforth the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as guardians,” Pence told an audience at the White House.

Look, I wasn’t high on the formation of a Space Force anyway. The Air Force already has a Space Command and was doing a stellar job of protecting us from missiles launched by hostile nations, let alone invaders from deep space.

I’m waiting for the first president of the United States say during a speech how he or she will honor the service of our “soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and guardians.”