{"id":90292,"date":"2026-10-05T01:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/army-stands-up-first-permanent-enlisted-space-operations-workforce\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T01:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:56:47","slug":"army-stands-up-first-permanent-enlisted-space-operations-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/army-stands-up-first-permanent-enlisted-space-operations-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Stands Up First Permanent Enlisted Space Operations Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of the career field gives the Army an enlisted track focused specifically on space operations. It marks the first time the service has built a permanent workforce of this kind for the domain.<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 soldiers have entered the new specialty, according to a report dated October 3, 2026. The career field represents a dedicated Army space operations specialty rather than a temporary or ad hoc assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The development shows space capabilities being pushed down into the ground services and reflects the military institutionalizing space as a day-to-day combat support function.<\/p>\n<p>A key question going forward is how the Army&#8217;s space cadre divides labor with the Space Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of the career field gives the Army an enlisted track focused specifically on space operations. It marks the first time the service has built a permanent workforce of this kind for the domain. More than 600 soldiers have entered the new specialty, according to a report dated October 3, 2026. The career field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}