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Air warfare component of the United States National Guard
You can qualify for U.S. Air Force pilot training with corrective lenses in many cases: distance vision may be as poor as 20/70 uncorrected if it is correctable to 20/20, and near vision must meet spe...
National Guard members receive drill pay and the same basic pay and many allowances when federally activated, plus a wide array of state and federal incentives such as enlistment/retention bonuses (so...
State governors can and do act as military commanders for forces in their states — including the Air National Guard — but that authority is limited: governors are commanders-in-chief of state militia ...
Buzz Aldrin’s December 2016 trip to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station cast him as both an explorer and an evangelist for human missions beyond Earth, making him the oldest person to reach the Sout...
A former astronaut’s alleged mishandling of classified material could, in principle, spur both civilian and military processes: civilian federal criminal statutes (like the Espionage Act) have been us...
Guard service under Title 10 and Title 32 both earn retirement *points* under the Reserve Component system, but depending on activation authority and duty type. Title 10 federal active duty places Gua...