Starting today at an unlikely place, the U.S. Army. With the branch recently celebrating its 250th anniversary, it's also entering a new chapter, one that involves more space activity. In fact, it's creating a new military occupational specialty for enlisted personnel supporting Army space operations – the 40D, Space Operations Specialist. To find out more about it and other plans of actions the branch is looking towards, I spoke with Brig. Gen. Donald Brooks, who is Deputy Commanding General for Operations for Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

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