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The Air Force’s top leaders on Thursday announced a new assessment of extremism in the service while calling on airmen and guardians to stand against extremist views.

Q&A with Gen. Thompson, Vice Chief of Space Operations SPACE 2/8/2021 Space Force photo Gen. David “DT” Thompson serves as the first vice chief of space operations for the Space Force, the military’s newest armed service. On Dec. 11, shortly before the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the organization, Thompson spoke with National Defense Senior Editor Yasmin Tadjdeh about the service’s accomplishments, its future and working with industry. The following Q&A has been lightly edited for length and clarity. The Space Force is now a year o...

Space Force Ranks: Specialist (E-1 through E-4) As of 2020 new members of the Space Force are not pulled in from the most junior ranks in and just out of Air Force basic training. Instead, they are recruited from airmen in the Air Force's space systems operations (1C6) career field. Specialist 1 (E-1) As of 2020, new members of the Space Force have attended and graduated from Air Force basic training as regular members of the Air Force. After ascending into the Space Force they are known as Specialist, with an official designation of Specialist 1 (E-1). Typically, promotions to E-2 are automa...

Exclusive: How the Space Force foiled an Iranian missile attack with a critical early warning Nathan Strout keyboard_arrow_down U.S. soldiers and journalists inspect the rubble at a site of Iranian bombing, in Ain al-Asad air base, Anbar, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. (Qassim Abdul-Zahra/AP) WASHINGTON — One year ago on the night of Jan. 7, 2020, Americans were shocked to learn that Iran had launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. Iran called it “fierce revenge” for the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. As reports of the attack inundat...