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Space Force Wants Unique Boot Camp for Guardians

ORLANDO, Fla.—Space Force leaders are looking at how they can create a distinct Basic Military Training program for Guardian recruits, and eyeing new locations for the BMT enterprise.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman listed the idea among things he wants to accomplish in 2025 during the Spacepower Conference here this week. He also hinted at other personnel changes ahead.

“We’ve got to get the BMT right-sized and in the right location,” Saltzman said in a question and answer session. Guardians and Airmen both go through BMT at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. They have done so since October 2020, Saltzaman said, because BMT “requires a lot of overhead” and USSF leaders wanted to move fast to build out their ranks.

The Space Force has gradually introduced its own Space Force-specific wrinkles to BMT. The first Guardian training instructor graduated from the Military Training Instructor Course in 2021, and the following spring, the first all-Guardian class inaugurated a new space-focused curriculum.

Splitting Guardian BMT off entirely would therefore be “a natural part of the evolution,” Saltzman later told Air & Space Forces Magazine during a media roundtable. “At some point you say, ‘Well, we’ve got to train and educate our own people.’”

Just what this new Space Force BMT will look like—and where it might be based—are still to be determined.

Air and Space Forces

I’d recommend Waukegan Illinois, where aspiring Guardians can also don just about every clothing item issued to march to the chow hall in Chicago winters. They’ll have to put in a golf course though.

Category: Space Force