
Exclusive: Inside Space Force boot camp with recruits to US military's newest branch
CNN
The US Space Force has hit a critical milestone: dedicated basic training for its early recruits.
As dawn breaks on Day 38 of basic training at Joint Base San Antonio, a bugle playing reveille blasts over the loudspeakers as a sergeant can be heard screaming, "Are you prepared to join the world's greatest space force? Then hurry up! Let's go, let's go."
It looks -- and sounds -- like basic boot camp for soldiers, sailors, marines or airmen. But all 71 of the new recruits at this basic training are guardians, the name for members of the first new branch of the armed services in more than 70 years.

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