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SDP 3-100, Space Domain Awareness cover
1994, Capt Christopher Ayres, 4th Space Warning Squadron, overwatches large 18-wheeled Mobile Ground System mission and comm vehicles move into place during a deployment operations exercise. After nearly 26 years of active duty service, Ayres currently serves as a senior civilian Guardian at SpOC and the technical director to the deputy commanding general of operations. (Courtesy photo)
Space Command activation ceremony – 1 September 1982. In 1985, Space Command was redesignated Air Force Space Command. During the activation ceremony for Space Command, General Hartinger declared his pride at having been selected its first commander and stated, “…establishment of the Space Command is a crucial milestone in the evolution of military space operations. Space is a place – like land, and sea and air – a theatre of operations, and it was just a matter of time until space was treated as such.” Under Secretary of the Air Force Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., predicted Colorado Springs would become the military space capital of the United States. (Courtesy photo)
2004, Capts Melissa Ruff and Todd Benson sit in a missile trainer at F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Ruff went on to serve almost 14 years as a Space operator and continues to serve as a civilian Guardian in Space Operations Command in theCombat Power Directorate. Now Colonel Todd Benson serves as the Director of Requirements for the U.S. Space Force for all existing and future space capabilties. (Courtesy photo)
Soldiers operate the small lightweight GPS receiver (SLGR) during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The receiver, which facilitated GPS navigation in the open desert, along with other space-based capabilities such as missile warning, space-based imagery and satellite communications played a major role in enabling the success of U.S. and coalition forces during 100 hours of sustained combat. (U.S. Army photo)
U.S. Marine Corps Col. Thomas Siverts, right, commanding officer of Marine Rotational Force-Southeast Asia, I Marine Expeditionary Force and U.S. Space Force Guardian Capt. Rafael Fermin, a linguist with MRF-SEA speaks with two Philippine Airforce service members at a maritime domain awareness seminar during Exercise Sama Sama 2023, on Fort Bonafacio, Manila, Luzon, Philippines, Oct. 3, 2023. Sama Sama is a multilateral exercise including forces from the Philippines, United States, Australia, France, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom designed to promote regional security cooperation, enhance maritime interoperability and maintain and strengthen maritime partnerships. MRF-SEA is a Marine Corps Forces Pacific operational model which involves planned exchanges with subject matter experts, promotes security goals with Allies and partners, and positions I MEF forces west of the International Date Line. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Kai W. Huber).
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