With his promotion to Brigadier General in the Air National Guard, Ernie Talbert became the first African American general officer in the 350-year history of the Delaware National Guard. A command pilot, Talbert spent six years on active duty, before joining the Delaware ANG, where he has served for the past 26 years in various operations and command assignments.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.