Maya Rodriguez is a National Correspondent, reporting for all E.W. Scripps television stations across the country. She is based in Washington, D.C., but she travels extensively from coast to coast and around the world for stories of interest.
The world's nations are looking for any advantage in the increasingly contested area of space. Now, an effort is underway to change how the U.S. military is structured to handle space-related missions.That solution would take current Air National Guard units — nine of them, in six different states — and move them to the U.S. Space Force. The proposal is not without controversy.
We are looking at how to best make that happen.'Critics, though, said the proposal is an issue of national security and that moving the units could cause some Air National Guard members to leave the service because of a lack of scheduling flexibility, which could potentially weaken America's space readiness.
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