Space to Nuclear transition could take years

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Space to Nuclear transition could take years
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 28, 2008 7:10:08 EDT

The massive reorganization underway in the Air Force that will create a new Global Strike Command and reshape Air Force Space Command and Air Combat Command will take several years to complete and may not lead to a clean break between the commands, the service’s top space officer said Monday.

Gen. Bob Kehler, commander of Air Force Space Command, said the transition will be gradual and that AFSPC will have to rely on Global Strike Command to provide many of its young space officers.

“This will have to be a phased transition,” Kehler said. “You can’t move everyone at once even if you wanted to. This transition will take several years to complete.”

The Air Force announced Friday that ACC’s nuclear-capable B-52s and B-2s and AFSPC’s intercontinental ballistic missile forces will move to the new Global Strike Command, which will stand up by September 2009. Air Force Cyber Command will be renamed 24th Air Force and will move from ACC to AFSPC.

The shake-up, prompted by two nuclear incidents that embarrassed the Air Force and eventually cost former Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley and Secretary Michael W. Wynne their jobs, is the largest reorganization in the service since Strategic Air Command disbanded in the early 1990s.


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