The chair and vice chair of the National Governors Association say the Air Force's latest plan for the National Guard constitutes "dangerous" federal overreach.
THE ISSUE: The Department of the Air Force has put forward a legislative proposal (LP480) which seeks to forcibly transfer Air National Guard units performing space missions into the U.S. Space Force without consent of affected governors.
ACTION: Immediately notify members of your congressional delegation asking them to reject LP480 and prevent it from becoming law.
Please contact your Congressional Delegation by filling out the form below.
The chief of the National Guard Bureau says the nation's governors have a "big concern" about the Air Force's proposed plan for the Guard's space personnel.
Fifty-three governors told Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Monday that the Air Force's scheme to take National Guard units without gubernatorial approval would "deeply damage the relationship between states and the federal government."
A bipartisan group of 10 state governors is urging the Department of the Air Force to retract Legislative Proposal 480, its plan to transfer the Air National Guard's space units to the Space Force.
A prominent member of Congress told a reporter April 17 that NGAUS should not "waste their time" fighting a legislative proposal from the Department of the Air Force to transfer the Air National Guard's space units to the Space Force.
The NGAUS concern is the dangerous precedent the proposal would set by bypassing the requirement in federal law to obtain the consent of the affected governors before transferring Air National Guard space units in seven states to the Space Force.
WASHINGTON (April 12, 2024) — Retired Maj. Gen. Frank M. McGinn, the NGAUS president, issued the following statement on Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s remarks to reporters Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2024) — The voice of more than 45,000 current and former National Guard officers today applauded Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., for recently co-sponsoring Senate legislation to create a Space National Guard.
The leaders of the National Governors Association today called for the withdrawal of the Department of the Air Force’s legislative proposal to transfer the Air National Guard's space units to the Space Force.