NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for September 15, 2022

Posted on: September 15, 2022 September 15, 2022
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September 15th, 2022

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Nominee for Top Space Force Job Grilled over National Guard Military.com
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Army National Guard launches free child care for soldiers during drill weekends Stars & Stripes
Scholarship Spotlight: Weldon E. Holcomb & Lt Col William C. Polk Memorial Scholarships NCNGA
Read the latest edition of the Tarheel Guardsman NCNGA
Highlighting EANGUS and NGAUS’s upcoming conferences NCNGA
Tickets-At-Work: Members get Discounts on Tickets NCNGA
This Week in NCNG History NCNG Museum
September 15th — Today in Guard History National Guard

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Nominee for Top Space Force Job Grilled over National Guard Military.com

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Space Force was hammered with questions from several senators Tuesday over whether he wants to create a National Guard for the service or allow part-time active-duty Guardians instead.

Lt. Gen. Bradley Saltzman, who was selected last month as Biden’s preferred pick to replace outgoing Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, faced the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday during his first confirmation hearing. He declined to take a side on the issue, as some lawmakers continue to feel pressure from their home states to create a Space National Guard.

“If confirmed as CSO, I would certainly welcome the opportunity to continue to work with members of this committee and other stakeholders to make sure that we get the right organizational structure and take advantage of these capabilities,” Saltzman demurred.

Saltzman, who currently serves as the Space Force’s deputy chief of operations, is expected to be confirmed later this year. But some lawmakers are still pushing for the creation of a Space National Guard, a fight that started in 2019 and has ramped up support this year.

In May, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bill that would create a Space National Guard, even as military leaders of the Air Force and Space Force pushed the idea of having full-time and part-time Space Force Guardians instead.

At the root of some lawmakers’ desire for a Space National Guard are 14 Air National Guard units with space-related missions and about 2,000 personnel located in California, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Florida, Colorado, Ohio, New York and Guam. Lawmakers in those locations want to see the units transferred to the Space Force — but as National Guard units, not part-time active-duty units.

Both Raymond and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall have publicly backed a plan that would combine the Space Force’s active-duty and reserve elements, arguing that it would be a more cost-effective and efficient way to recruit skilled talent from the private sector.

Kendall signed off on a proposal to create the full-time and part-time structure in April, and Raymond said in May that seeing it approved by Congress is one of his top priorities.

“We have overhauled how we recruit, assess, train, develop, promote, employ and take care of our Guardians. … This is one of the reasons we are seeking the integration of active-duty and reserve forces into a single hybrid component,” Raymond told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 3. “This is our number one legislative proposal, and we look forward to working very closely with this committee to implement this bold and transformational approach.”

Scholarship Spotlight:

Weldon E. Holcomb Memorial Scholarship

Mr. Holcomb joined the military and 1942 as part of the 28th Infantry Division. He participated in D-Day invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. He was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944. He was a POW for nine months before escaping and making his way back to the American lines to be released in May 1945. Mr. Holcomb joined the NCNG in 1947 as a full-time unit administrator in Winston-Salem. He serves as Division Food Service Chief and Battalion Administrative Officer for the 230th Support Battalion, 30th Infantry Division, Winston-Salem. Upon his death in 1973, Mr. Holcomb had attained the rank of Chief Warrant Officer Four.

Lt Col William C. Polk Memorial Scholarship

Lt Col Polk enlisted in the US Army in February of 1943 in September of that year he entered duty as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps ultimately serving as a bomber pilot. He flew the A-26 over “The Hump” in the Burma-China Theater at the age of 21. He was reassigned in April of 1946 to the Army Air Corps Reserves where he served until joining the North Carolina Air National Guard, 156th Fighter Bomber Squadron in 1954 as a pilot flying the F86A. He was seriously injured in the crash of his T-33 at Savannah, Georgia during exercises. He was employed as the full-time Base Civilian Engineer for the NCANG. Many changes on the base were the result of his efforts. His last large design and construction project was the base operations building. He retired from as a full-time technician and from the NCANG on April 30, 1981.

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Read the latest edition of the Tarheel Guardsman NCNGA

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Tickets-At-Work: Members get Discounts on Tickets NCNGA

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September 15th — Today in Guard History National Guard

1676
Jamestown, Virginia – Governor William Berkeley, leading loyal forces, launches an abortive attack across the causeway connecting James Fort to the main settlement on the peninsula against rebel troops commanded by Nathaniel Bacon, leader of “Bacon’s Rebellion.” This conflict, sometimes referred to both as the first rebellion against royal authority in the New World and America’s first “civil war”, had none of the high moral or philosophical causes to its credit. Its basis lay in a power struggle between the governor, who wanted to preserve peace with the Indians at any price so long as the wealthy planters were not attacked, versus small frontier farmers who were increasingly coming under hostile assaults as groups of nomadic Indians passed close to their settlements. Under pressure from the farmers Berkeley was forced to appoint Bacon to lead an expedition to punish the raiders. Bacon’s men soon attacked a peaceful tribe, killing some of the people and destroying their village and crops. While on this expedition, Berkeley declared Bacon and his men “rebels”. Upon their return they marched on Jamestown (then the capital of Virginia) and besieged the governor and his loyal followers in the old James Fort. Since almost all free men, including free Africans, were members of the militia the men fighting on both sides during this rebellion were militia. Soon after his defeat, Berkeley and his party escaped to Virginia’s Eastern Shore. When word of the rebellion reached England, King Charles II dispatched Royal troops to restore order, marking the first time English Regulars served in America. Before they arrived Bacon died of disease and the revolt ended. Royal authority was restored but the first stirrings of what would later become known as “liberty” against the power of the Crown had appeared.

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