Colorado Springs, CO — Step aside, Maverick! Buzz Lightyear is hitting movie theaters, and as it sweeps across the land, the U.S. Space Force will be there with him. The latest animated film by Disney and Pixar is expected to be a blockbuster, and there are arguably none more excited about it than America’s youngest military service.

“We’re so friggin’ stoked!” said Tech. Sgt. Franklin Maxwell, a Space Force recruiter currently staffing a table inside the lobby of Roadhouse Cinemas in Colorado Springs. “Buzz Lightyear is an absolute maniac who puts those Top Gun sissies to shame. This is gonna generate a lot of interest in Space Force, even more than Top Gun did for the Navy.”

Sources in the Pentagon have mostly been tight-lipped about any involvement in the production of Lightyear, which tells the story of a brash young astronaut who travels through time and fights an evil robot empire.

“Yeah, you might get to fight robots,” said Maxwell to an excited young man who had just exited the movie and nearly ran to his recruiting table. “There’s robots everywhere, my man. Some of ‘em gotta be evil.”