{"id":30812,"date":"2021-02-03T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/03\/space-force-is-looking-for-a-few-good-soldiers-sailors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:28:41","slug":"space-force-is-looking-for-a-few-good-soldiers-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/02\/03\/space-force-is-looking-for-a-few-good-soldiers-sailors\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force is looking for a few good soldiers, sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Going into its second year, the Space Force has a uniform<\/a>, a rank structure<\/a> more than 2,000 newly minted guardians getting the military\u2019s newest service off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan is to nearly triple that end-strength this year, through a mix of civilian recruitment and transfers from existing service members, mostly from the Air Force, but also a handful from the Army and Navy\u2019s space career fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the course of that last six months or so, we have gone through and selected those that are going to come into the Space Force,\u201d Gen. Jay Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, told Military Times on Wednesday. \u201cAnd on the active-duty side, that\u2019s approximately 6,400 active-duty airmen that are going to transfer into the Space Force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, 2,400 of those have already transferred, including through Air Force commissioning sources or enlisted basic military training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raymond\u2019s comments came on a day when White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that the Biden administration is \u201cnot revisiting<\/a>\u201d the Trump administration\u2019s move to stand up the new service, putting to bed simmering rumors about its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it\u2019s nested under the Air Force Department, airmen in space career fields were identified to transfer into the Space Force. But the intention have a mix things up this year with some former soldiers and sailors from space backgrounds \u2015 including engineers, intelligence, acquisitions and cyber specialists \u2015 as well as to recruit civilians the way the other services do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re looking for another 34 to transfer in 2021 from the Army and Navy, Raymond said, and several hundred more in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t order somebody to come in the Space Force,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all voluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, Space Force has done some online town halls for virtual questions and answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\t