Air Force Secretary Wants Part-Time Space Force Guardians, Not Reserves – By Thomas Novelly (Military.com) / April 18, 2022
The Department of the Air Force is pumping the brakes on creating a National Guard or reserve component for the Space Force, opting instead for full-time or part-time Guardians in a new congressional proposal.
The legislative proposal, which was submitted to Congress earlier this month and approved by Force Secretary Frank Kendall, seemingly would combine the Space Force’s active-duty and reserve elements.
“This component proposal is a new approach to managing reserve component forces by merging what has traditionally been called active-duty forces and reserve forces into a new component that provides full-time and part-time service options to guardians,” Lt. Col. Justin Brockhoff, Kendall’s spokesman, said in a statement to Military.com.
