Check Out the 16 Jobs Available to Troops in US Space Force
The U.S. Space Force is just 75 days old, but it has already narrowed down a tight list of 16 military job specialties that it will own, the director of Space Force Planning said Tuesday.
Maj. Gen. Clinton Crosier said Space Force now has built a staff of about 110 in its headquarters element, of about 200 that it needs.
Space Force will build to a strength of roughly 15,000, he said, working to stay focused by avoiding duplication of infrastructure and support functions already provided by other services.
Rather, he said, the members of the nation’s newest military branch will focus on five key technical areas: space operations, space engineering, space intelligence, space acquisition and science, and space cyber.
His remarks, to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, offered vital insights to the function of a fledgling service that has been largely shrouded in mystery. Still unknown is what the rank and command structure will be; how new recruits can join the Space Force; and even what members of the service will call themselves.
Space Force, which is under the purview of the Department of the Air Force, just as the Marine Corps is within the Department of the Navy, will adopt 16 different specialty codes from the Air Force that all fall within the five main functions.
According to Crosier’s presentation, they include the following:
- 13S Space Ops
- 1C6 Space Systems Ops
- 14N Intel
- 17C Cyber Ops Officer
- 17D Cyber Ops
- 1N0 All Source Intel
- 1N1 Geospatial Intel
- 1N2 Signals Intel
- 3D1N4 Fusion Analysis
- 3D0 Cyber Ops
- 3D1 Cyber Support
- 62E Development Engineer
- 62S Materiel Leader
- 63A Acquisition Manager
- 63G Senior Materiel Ldr-Upper Ech
- 63S Materiel Leader
“Eighty percent of the common support the space force needs … is going to come from the Air Force. So we can really focus on the things we were told to do. If it’s a Space Force-specific function, Space Force will execute,” Crosier said.
That said, the service will draw specialists from all services to make up its ranks, he added. The headquarters element already includes 14 sailors, 26 soldiers and two Marines, as well as airmen, he said.
At least initially, infrastructure borrowed from the services will include initial training for enlisted members and officers.
“You’ll enlist directly in the Space Force. You will go to Air Force basic training. If you want to commission as an officer, [you’ll go to] the Air Force Academy, [along with the other service academies, ROTC and officer training school],” Crosier said. “We will commission people from any service and put them directly in the Space Force pipeline.”
He noted that the service will have to overcome the challenge, then, of how to bring the new Space Force members together and “meld them into a common culture.”
Crosier emphasized that the service will adopt new 21st century manning and personnel policies, noting that the specialists it requires may come from industry and academia and need nontraditional career paths. All that is being assessed right now, he said, with input from other services, foreign militaries and outside experts.
“It’s going to be sized differently; it’s going to have to run differently. We’re going to have to tailor different policies and issues to the Space Force,” he said.
— Hope Hodge Seck can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @HopeSeck.
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gratzite
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Just another blind to hide the space navies operating in secret for 50 years.
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Lloyd.
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HA!!!! Let me guess. Romulan cloaking devices.
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Andy Rowlands
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What space navies are these? We do not have the capability of building such vehicles now, let alone 50 years ago.
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Andy Rowlands
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I cannot see the point of this at all. Who are these people going to fight in space?
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JDHuffman
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Klingons, of course. 🙂
But seriously, as more and more aggressor nations develop space capabilities, it is necessary to be able to respond militarily.
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Andy Rowlands
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Other than the USA and Russia, only France, Japan, China, India, Israel, Iran and North Korea have an oribal launch capability. We can pretty much discount France, India, Israel and Japan as being ‘aggressor nations’, which leaves China, Iran and North Korea. India and North Korea are not signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Japan & Iran do not have a nuclear launch capability, which kind of singles out North Korea. This rather suggests this space force is being set up either to specifically counter North Korea, or on a whim.
It would be about 20 years before manned orbital vehicles could be developed, or maybe ten years for unmanned missile platforms like were portrated in the 1979 film Meteor. All this defensive capability can be handled with present land-based interceptors, like kinetic energy weapons that simply smash into incoming missiles, so the whole thing seems a colossal waste of money to me.
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JDHuffman
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Andy, you correctly identified some aggressor nations, but then you casually dismissed them? Don’t forget the lessons of history. You can’t appease evil. You must be ready and willing to squash anyone that is trying to kill you. The most effective way to avoid war is to be much stronger than those that mean to do you harm.
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Andy Rowlands
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I’m not casually dismissing anyone, just reporting which countries have the capability to be a threat from space, or at least from orbit. I am a firm believer in the saying ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’. This however, does not give any country the right to effectively dictate what goes on around our planet. No wonder some countries have a big problem with American foreign policy.
JDHuffman
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I’m glad you agree that no country has “the right to effectively dictate what goes on around our planet”.
This is why it’s important to stand strong against aggressor nations. As you may have noticed, it is only the aggressor nations and the wimp nations that “have a big problem with American foreign policy”.
Vance Lunn
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As humans populate space and other bodies in the Solar System, they will bring all their vices with them, including war.
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Brian James
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This is always left out of any space conversation.
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