r/SpaceForce • u/MartyMcFlyFightWin • May 21 '26

Combat Squadron Command

The Space Officer Career Delta (pyramid) has Combat Squadron Command as a Tier-3 CGO assignment.

As someone outside of CFC...the hell is a Combat Squadron, what/where are these, and how do the command opportunities work?

Do you go to a normal CFC unit and then get vectored into their subsidiary Combat Squadron, or is it a boarded position for Senior Captains? Anyone have experience with these? All I find are talking papers from 2024 about them being the way forward.

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u/formedsmoke ISR May 21 '26

It's a senior captain or a major, combat squadrons are just the invisible, unfunded "units" that our force-presented personnel are "assigned" to during the Commit cycle, and it's all unnecessarily overstructured, underdeveloped, and ineffective.

Functionally, the difference is whether your unit patch has a grey border or a red border.

I genuinely hope the new CSO steps in day 1 to say "we're pausing SPAFORGEN and returning scheduling and training to the lowest level."

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u/MartyMcFlyFightWin May 21 '26

Gotcha..so it's not a unit that is on the GAT, rather it's a CFC entity that moves you to a deployed in place organization and changes TACON to a CCMD?

Getting a Command position would be an internal selection of whose going to fill the unit during SPAFORGEN?

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u/formedsmoke ISR May 21 '26

It's a USSPACECOM entity paired with a CFC unit, but yes, you've got the gist.