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The Space Force is trying to retain trained people by offering an eight year active duty contract.<\/p>\n
The Space Force hopes to offer new Guardians the option of serving the regular eight-year enlistment — with four years typically spent on active duty and four in the Individual Ready Reserve component — entirely on active duty, in an effort to retain highly skilled new recruits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So as I read it, a young Forceketeer enlists, does 4 years on a Force base, then is off to join a Force Reserve unit as an active-duty\u00a0 person, right? Oh, and bonuses are on offer, presumably for an 8 year hitch, hefty ones.<\/p>\n
New Guardians who take the option would not drop into the Individual Ready Reserve status the way most enlisted personnel do — their ties to the Defense Department would be complete the day they left active duty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Makes sense…they day they leave completes their entire commitment, no Reserve component duty needed – served your time, paid your debt to society, done.<\/p>\n
In addition to changes made to boost retention, top Air and Space Force officials announced structural changes in early February that they said should better prepare their troops for a potential conflict in the Pacific with China.<\/p>\n
The changes include bringing back warrant officers after more than 65 years without them — a plan first reported by Military.com — as well as changes to training; renaming and upgrading training and educational systems for Air Force Academy and ROTC cadets; and setting up a new field command called Space Futures Command that would focus, in part, on “experimentation and war games,” the Department of the Air Force said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Time for a little something I didn’t know about the Force:<\/p>\n
It was formally established in 2019 and has only around 8,600 personnel.<\/p>\n