The Air Force is promoting a policy shift that effectively goes against more than a hundred years of precedent and is facing significant opposition to it.
is promoting a policy shift that effectively goes against more than a hundred years of precedent, and is facing significant opposition to it.
“The crux of the issue in dealing with 480 is just the terrible precedent it’s going to set,” retired Maj. Gen. Francis McGinn, president of the National Guard Association of the United States, told the“The Army could say we’re going to take a project combat team out of the Army Guard and put it into the active component,” he added. “So for us, the crux is the very bad precedent. It goes against 120 years of history.
Members of the Air and Army National Guard are part-time reserve service members who can be federalized in specific instances but are normally under gubernatorial control. Lawmakers and military leaders have discussed the possibility for years of creating a Space National Guard but that hasn’t happened to date. Specific units within the Air National Guard focus on space.
Gov. Spencer Cox , who serves as the chairman of the National Governors Association, recently spoke with Kendall last week.
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