{"id":109987,"date":"2021-01-29T17:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109987"},"modified":"2021-01-29T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:28:37","slug":"space-force-revamps-enlisted-rank-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109987","title":{"rendered":"Space Force revamps enlisted rank titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109171\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?resize=334%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?resize=334%2C333&amp;ssl=1 334w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?resize=768%2C766&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/space-force-logo.jpg?w=883&amp;ssl=1 883w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Space Force continues to try to distinguish themselves from their parent organization the Air Force. After switching from referring to themselves as airmen to guardian, they are likewise changing the junior enlisted ranks to remove airman.<\/p>\n<p>E-1 through E-4 will now be known as Specialists 1 through 4. Terms of address are &#8220;Specialist&#8221;, &#8220;Spec #&#8221;, or &#8220;Specialist #&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, they are remove the staff from staff sergeants. They will now just be known as &#8220;Sergeant&#8221;. Ranks E-6 and higher will retain their current titles as will officer ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/space-force-announces-new-rank-names-1.660329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stars &amp; Stripes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Force continues to try to distinguish themselves from their parent organization the Air Force. After switching from referring to themselves as airmen to guardian, they are likewise changing the junior enlisted ranks to remove airman. E-1 through E-4 will now be known as Specialists 1 through 4. Terms of address are &#8220;Specialist&#8221;, &#8220;Spec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-space-force"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-sBZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}