The reality is there are already thousands of Air and Army Guard members doing Space Force work, without a corresponding Guard organization to manage recruiting, training, and promotion. Space Guard is a no brainer, and hopefully the new Congress takes it up (after approving more Ukraine aid).
Do you really understand the status differences of a National Guard unit and how that works with an active duty-type mission. As a retired ANG officer who worked numerous years trying to “train” active duty folks on the differences, I am concerned that either the active component will continually run into status issues, or the NG Space folks will “ignore” the status differences and just do the mission. This is a problem the alert forces really ran into after 9-11, for example.
Who is we? I worked on this for years and Congress showed no inclination to change the various sections of Title 10 or Title 32 that causes these issues.
The reality is there are already thousands of Air and Army Guard members doing Space Force work, without a corresponding Guard organization to manage recruiting, training, and promotion. Space Guard is a no brainer, and hopefully the new Congress takes it up (after approving more Ukraine aid).
Do you really understand the status differences of a National Guard unit and how that works with an active duty-type mission. As a retired ANG officer who worked numerous years trying to “train” active duty folks on the differences, I am concerned that either the active component will continually run into status issues, or the NG Space folks will “ignore” the status differences and just do the mission. This is a problem the alert forces really ran into after 9-11, for example.
That will be something we have to overcome.
Who is we? I worked on this for years and Congress showed no inclination to change the various sections of Title 10 or Title 32 that causes these issues.