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Title: STARCOM: Training Troops To Fight Space Wars, Boldly
Post by: rangerrebew on December 02, 2020, 11:07:45 am
 STARCOM: Training Troops To Fight Space Wars, Boldly

"We've decided that the topic is important enough and unique enough that we need a group of people who understand it down to its most fundamental levels."
By   Theresa Hitchens on November 30, 2020 at 5:13 PM

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Second Lt. Kelley McCaa, 2nd Space Operations Squadron satellite vehicle operator, and Airman 1st Class John Garcia, 2nd SOPS satellite systems operator, set satellite vehicle number-74, the first iteration of GPS Block III vehicles, as healthy and active to users Jan. 13, 2020, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado,. Setting the vehicle healthy and active makes the satellite available for use by military and civilian GPS users around the world for agriculture, banking and navigation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Coleman-Foster)

WASHINGTON: Space Force’s new training and readiness unit, called STARCOM, is working from the ground up to figure out what doctrine, skills and tech space professionals will need for orbital warfare.

“What we are really bringing to the fight is focus. Focus on space,” Col. Peter Flores, commander of the Space Training and Readiness (STAR) Delta Provisional at Space Operations Command, said in an interview today. (STAR Delta is the predecessor to a brand new training and readiness field command, that will be called STARCOM. It will be led by a two-star and is expected to be up and running sometime next year.)

“We’ve decided that the topic is important enough and unique enough that we need a group of people who understand it down to its most fundamental levels,” Flores added.

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/11/starcom-training-troops-to-fight-space-wars-boldly/