The force must be willing to pay for that expertise. Space requires highly educated guardians. This means "while the talent and the abilities of our enlisted force has grown year by year-by-year, the difference in pay between E-5 and O-5 has also grown," Towberman said. "We can't get our mission done without them." Space Force leaders are looking for ways to incorporate these important assets into the force, he said.Īnother aspect the leadership would like to address is the fact that it has been 20 years since there's been a targeted pay raise. "The reality is that we need the Guard and Reserve today," he said. Right now, the Space Force is made up solely of active duty personnel. That will become the Space Force Leadership School to start, and Towberman anticipates a Space Force senior NCO Academy growing out of this in the years to come. Space Force has "inherited" the NCO Academy at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
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The Space Force will probably walk away from Air Force enlisted professional military education. "Maybe there can be a sliding scale for personnel like that." "If I take a senior NCO with 15 years of experience and he/she goes to OTS, am I really going to make that person, with that experience, be a second lieutenant," Towberman asked. Other personnel aspects include possibly giving former enlisted personnel a higher officer rank once they finish officer training. The Space Force will study the warrant officer program to see if it is something they want to adopt and adapt to their circumstances, the chief said. The Air Force has no warrant officers - a decision made when the service was formed. Most of the Space Force will be based in the United States, but small guardian teams will deploy to overseas hotspots, as needed, he said. He does not anticipate the Space Force getting its own dedicated basic training program. He said the service will make incremental changes as needed, moving forward. The Space Force has changed about nine hours of instruction in basic training for Space Force personnel.
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"In the summer, we will have larger classes and we anticipate having full Space Force flights," he said The chief said that through the rest of the winter that six or seven Space Force personnel will be in training flights. There were seven and they were interspersed in a Basic Training Flight at Lackland Air Force Base. John "Jay" Raymond, visited San Antonio to meet the first Space Force basic training graduates in mid-December. For the time being, Space Force personnel will continue to train alongside their Air Force compatriots. Training for personnel in these specialty codes is typically done in what the Air Force calls technical schools. "So, literally everything else has to be done either by Department of the Air Force civilians that are assigned to the Space Force, or airmen."Įnlisted personnel in some Air Force specialty codes in operations, intelligence and cyber are being transferred to the new service. "The uniformed force will be very precisely focused on operations, intelligence and cyber," Towberman said. The Space Force will also examine the missions to see what jobs can be done by DOD civilians.
Medical, personnel, security and administration - and more - will all come from the Air Force. Space Force is a separate service under the Department of the Air Force and - like the Marine Corps to the Navy - will look to the Air Force for support. Space Force aims to eliminate layers of command where possible, and emphasize being agile and quick, the chief said. Towberman sees small teams being the core of the service's future. The Space Force wants to be small to be agile and flexible. The entire Space Force will be about the same size as a Marine Corps division. So, the mission and the environment can bind together the service, building a unique culture for the 20,000 guardians. "Maybe we can all get very excited about a very specific and special role that we have to play, and have this culture bind us around space and space operations. "I think, maybe, we can have the best of both worlds," he said. The Space Force faces the same challenges, but Towberman believes leaders can use the missions to bind personnel together. A challenge the Air Force has had is to develop this larger more inclusive culture, Towberman said. It is not like the Army or Marine Corps where every soldier or Marine is a rifleman. That kind of specialization doesn't lend itself to overarching enculturation. Different systems require different technicians. Different aircraft require different maintainers.
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