Space Force Converts Its First 18 Part-Time Guardians
The Personnel Management Act, written into the 2024 defense authorization law, will move roughly 225 more reservists into that same status.
- Brig. Gen. Matthew Holston's PMA Integration Office ran the July 15, 2026 transfer.
- Pay, benefits and retirement stay unchanged for the new part-time Guardians.
- The act merges active and reserve troops into one single chain of command.
Why it matters: The law enlists no one new; it only relabels the legal status of eighteen reservists already serving.
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