Nearly 400 from space group could face transfer into nation’s newest military branch
Signs greet personnel at the south entrance to Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora on Friday, July 30, 2021. potentially hundreds of Colorado Air National Guard members involved in space operations to the Space Force is facing pushback from Gov. Jared Polis and most of the state’s congressional delegation.
The Air Force is seeking approval from Congress to explicitly waive a requirement that it obtain governors’ approval before transferring Air National Guard units to the Space Force., was submitted by the Air Force to be included in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, the legislation that sets military policy.
Col. Devin Pepper of the now-inactive 460th Space Wing shows a video about the operations of the wing at what’s now called Buckley Space Force Base on Oct. 9, 2019, in Aurora. In a letter responding to concerns from the governors association, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall wrote that all units transferred to the Space Force under the proposal would remain in their current location.
“These missions — and the professionals who perform them — are essential to the unity of command and mission success of the U.S. Space Force,” Kendall wrote to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who chairs the National Governors Association. Polis is the association’s vice chair.The 233rd Space Group, based at the Greeley Air National Guard Station, offers the Air Force’s only mobile ground system for immediate detection of nuclear weapon launches, including from space.
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