It plans to grow to around 16,000 members overall.Ĭrafting an introduction for newcomers with significant prior military experience is a challenge that no service has had to think through since the Air Force became a separate branch of the military in 1947. Together, this round of 929 personnel comprises about 7 percent of the newest military branch, which is on track to have more than 13,600 employees once the latest batch arrives. Service officials have said troops who transfer in will keep their same grade. Officers and enlisted must spend up to four years on active duty once they join the Space Force, depending on their previous career. Officers will be administered the oath of office and sign official Space Force commissioning documents.” “On the official date of transfer, enlisted members will be administered the oath of enlistment and sign enlistment contracts into the Space Force. “To officially transfer from one military service to another, a military member separates from the current service and commissions or enlists into the new service in their current rank,” the Space Force said last year. RELATED Read the list of the soldiers, sailors and Marines picked to join the Space Force The Navy’s narrowband satellite enterprise will transfer 13 satellites and 76 jobs to the Space Force as well. The Army plans to send over about 500 jobs and $78 million worth of operations, maintenance and personnel resources, including five wideband SATCOM operations centers and four regional SATCOM support centers that allow troops to send data in combat.
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The Space Force picked 50 of them for its first cohort of transfers that started arriving in July, after more than 2,400 airmen who were already assigned to the Space Force - largely as satellite operators - began formally moving over in September 2020.Īnother 215 uniformed members, plus the approximately 260 civilians, will come over as part of 15 satellite communications units that are transferring from the Army and Navy. 28 online town hall.Ībout 450 of the troops chosen had previously applied in a pool of more than 3,700 active-duty officers and enlisted volunteers. Service officials outlined the jobs they anticipate will be available during a Jan. They’ll jump into jobs like cyber defense, satellite operations, intelligence analysis and acquisition. The Army will send the most uniformed transferees to the Space Force at 603 soldiers, followed by 49 sailors and 18 Marines. Those who are coming in as part of Army and Navy units that the Space Force is absorbing will not be allowed to transfer until 2022 defense legislation is enacted. 30 could also see a delay, depending on how long the government is open under a continuing resolution, but will need time for their paperwork to process and may not have much of a problem. Troops who volunteered to join and were announced on Sept. Soldiers, sailors and Marines who were announced as the first interservice transfers in June can still formally join, because their jobs were funded by the fiscal 2021 budget. When troops can transfer in depends on their path to entering the service, Space Force spokesperson Lynn Kirby said on Friday. “If there’s a continuing resolution, we’ll have to wait until that is resolved.” John “Jay” Raymond said during a Defense One event on Monday. “All those systems on orbit, plus the ground stations that operate those capabilities and integrate those capabilities, that all transfers over to the Space Force beginning 1 October if there isn’t a continuing resolution,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. The Space Force has never received on-time annual funding since its creation in December 2019, slowing the new service’s efforts to grow. But the legislation doesn’t allow the Space Force to take on new personnel or missions, like Army communications payloads that ride on satellites flown by guardians. 3 under a stopgap funding measure Congress passed Sept. The federal government will stay open until Dec.
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