Navy Unit Transfers Into Space Force

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Navy Unit Transfers Into Space Force, Becomes 10th Space Operations Squadron

June 14, 2022 | By Greg Hadley

More than a dozen satellites and the Navy unit that operated them transferred into the Space Force on June 6. when the Naval Satellite Operations Center became the 10th Space Operations Squadron.

The switch marked the first of several space-focused units transferring from the Army and Navy over to the Space Force, a process that began as soon as the new service stood up in December 2019.

After months of discussion, the Space Force announced in September 2021 a list of 15 Army and Navy units that would transfer over, units that contained 319 military and 259 civilian personnel. Later that month, the Space Force announced it would welcome 215 military and 259 civilian personnel from those units.

Those transfers were supposed to start with the beginning of fiscal 2022, but Congress’ delay in passing a new budget slowed the process down. An appropriations bill was finally passed in March, setting the stage for the June 6 Disestablishment and Assumption of Command Ceremony at Point Mugu, Calif.

“This activation marks the beginning of the Department of Defense’s consolidation of all narrow-band, wide-band, and protected SATCOM to include all associated responsibilities for training, accusation, and sustainment activities under a single military service for the first time in history,” Space Force Lt. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, head of Space Operations Command, said in a release.

The Naval Satellite Operations Center, or NAVSOC, first stood up in 1962 and has operated the Navy’s satellites—there are 13 at the moment, providing global narrowband communications.

“For 60 years, NAVSOC has advocated and advanced American maritime superiority,” said Vice Adm. Ross A. Myers, commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and the 10th Fleet, during the ceremony. “NAVSOC enabled satellite communications to afford the United States and her allies the crucial ability to provide defensive measures, conduct over-the-horizon monitoring and targeting, and project combat power in areas of conflict and instability around the globe.”

All 13 of those satellites are now under the Space Force, including the Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) satellite system, the Mobile User Objective System, and the Fleet Satellite Communications System. In addition to the satellites, NAVSOC also transferred over a facility at Laguna Peak, three miles from Point Mugu, that is responsible for the Space-Ground Link System and the satellites’ telemetry, tracking, and command operations.

The newly formed 10th Space Operations Squadron will continue with its existing missions while now falling under Space Delta 8, which handles USSF’s satellite communications enterprise.

“Space has become highly contested,” Col. Matthew Holston, commander of Space Delta 8, said at the transfer ceremony. “Our adversaries recognize our reliance on space, and they are actively seeking ways to create vulnerabilities to take away our competitive advantage. It is the 10th Space Force Operations Squadron that is on the front lines to guaranteeing our American way of life.”

According to a release, the 10th Space Operations Squadron was designated as such as a nod to its history as part of the 10th Fleet.

While NAVSOC is now part of the Space Force, the formal transfer of other units is still to come, including the Army’s 53rd Signal Battalion.

Editor’s Note: This story was updated June 15 to clarify which Army units will transfer into the Space Force

[Ninurta]

Seems to me to be another example of mission creep, same as operating SEALs 1000 miles from the nearest ocean is.

Navy should restrict itself to maritime activities, Army should restrict itself to terrestrial activities, Air Force should be restricted to atmospheric operations, and Space Force should concern itself only with things beyond the atmosphere.

Just one man's opinion.

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[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Seems to me to be another example of mission creep, same as operating SEALs 1000 miles from the nearest ocean is.

Navy should restrict itself to maritime activities, Army should restrict itself to terrestrial activities, Air Force should be restricted to atmospheric operations, and Space Force should concern itself only with things beyond the atmosphere.

Just one man's opinion.

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Looks like they all want a piece of the pie.

The on land, on sea, and in the air, motto will be on land off planet as well.

I just pray they truly are uninhabited, because we did such and amazing job of screwing up this planet, I hate to think what our invading presence, bearing gifts of colonialism, pollution, greed, and thirst for power and control, will bring to lands beyond our atmosphere. 

If they are inhabited, I hope they nip us in the bud.

[Brotherman]

It’s hard to smoke in space but space marines will find a way.

I don’t have a source but I do know they have been looking for a few good men to air drop in locations from low orbit earth and get the fuck out quickly. 

I believe in my day the program was called

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Seems to me to be another example of mission creep, same as operating SEALs 1000 miles from the nearest ocean is.

Navy should restrict itself to maritime activities, Army should restrict itself to terrestrial activities, Air Force should be restricted to atmospheric operations, and Space Force should concern itself only with things beyond the atmosphere.

Just one man's opinion.

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Looks like they all want a piece of the pie.

The on land, on sea, and in the air, motto will be on land off planet as well.

I just pray they truly are uninhabited, because we did such and amazing job of screwing up this planet, I hate to think what our invading presence, bearing gifts of colonialism, pollution, greed, and thirst for power and control, will bring to lands beyond our atmosphere. 

If they are inhabited, I hope they nip us in the bud.

ExactoMundo imo as well. No more wars on land & sea so where they (MIC) gonna go? Space and in 2019 or was it 2020? they officially specified "Space" as a warfighting domain. The next MIC haven at least in $$$$ for now. Just hope they don't destroy the alien artifacts on Mars as Donald Trump specified in the Artemis Accords, to preserve all off-world artifacts discovered.

[ChiefD]

Seems to me to be another example of mission creep, same as operating SEALs 1000 miles from the nearest ocean is.

Navy should restrict itself to maritime activities, Army should restrict itself to terrestrial activities, Air Force should be restricted to atmospheric operations, and Space Force should concern itself only with things beyond the atmosphere.

Just one man's opinion.

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This!!!!! ^^^^^^

I don't think the Space Force should be cannibalizing from other Service Branches. They just seem too lazy to create things on their own.

[Ninurta]

Seems to me to be another example of mission creep, same as operating SEALs 1000 miles from the nearest ocean is.

Navy should restrict itself to maritime activities, Army should restrict itself to terrestrial activities, Air Force should be restricted to atmospheric operations, and Space Force should concern itself only with things beyond the atmosphere.

Just one man's opinion.

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This!!!!! ^^^^^^

I don't think the Space Force should be cannibalizing from other Service Branches. They just seem too lazy to create things on their own.

Hopefully, in the future they will recruit and train their own. Maybe this is just an instance of wanting to be able to hit the ground running with pre-trained personnel, but that just leaves the other services with a need to train and recruit more people from the ground up just to get back to TOE strength. What difference does it make whether newbies have to be trained and recruited by Space Force or another service? New is new, and 6 of one is a half-dozen of the other.

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