1st Space Brigade to share expertise with Marines

In August, the Space and Missile Defense Command’s 1st Space Brigade will begin training select Marines on how the Army uses space-based capabilities to assist warfighters.

Marines from the newly activated Marine Corps Forces Space Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, will train at the Space and Missile Defense School in Colorado Springs, and then move on to embed with Army Space Support Teams. Training will include situational awareness of space capabilities, space assets, space products and the impact of space on operations.

“The Marines will fall in on SMDC’s training,” Maj. Steven Richards, an ARSST officer-in-charge with 2nd Space Company, 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, said. “We will get them schooled up on certification tables to be fully prepared to bring their space expertise back to whomever is requesting it.”