{"id":117367,"date":"2020-12-19T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-space-force-members-get-new-name"},"modified":"2020-12-19T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:23:38","slug":"guardians-of-the-galaxy-space-force-members-get-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-space-force-members-get-new-name","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Guardians\u2019 of the Galaxy: Space Force Members Get New Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-space-force-members-get-new-name.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space Force members will be known as \u201cGuardians\u201d from now on, Vice President Michael R. Pence announced Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come,\u201d he said at a Dec. 18 White House ceremony celebrating the Space Force\u2019s upcoming birthday.<\/p>\n<p>As the Space Force turns 1 year old on Dec. 20, abandoning the moniker of \u201cAirman\u201d is one of the most prominent moves made so far to distinguish space personnel from the Air Force they came from. An effort to crowdsource options brought in more than 500 responses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/space-force-finalizing-personnel-decisions-legislative-proposal\/\">earlier this year<\/a>, including \u201csentinel\u201d and \u201cvanguard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Force members will be known as \u201cGuardians\u201d from now on, Vice President Michael R. Pence announced Dec. 18. \u201cSoldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come,\u201d he said at a Dec. 18 White House ceremony celebrating the Space Force\u2019s upcoming birthday. As the Space Force turns 1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}