"National Guard leaders want the Pentagon to create a Space National Guard — and if it doesn’t, Guard officials may work independently with Congress to make it happen, top generals said Wednesday.

The Defense Department is set to submit a report to Congress this March laying out plans for how the Space Force will incorporate Reserve and National Guard forces. Currently, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is studying a range of options, including unique models that would divide the Space Force into full- and part-time positions, or having no reserve component at all, Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, the adjutant general from California, said during a media roundtable with reporters."

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RADCLIFF, Ky. — "A new Army Corps headquarters is coming to Fort Knox, and local officials said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell helped make that happen despite competition from military bases in other states.

"As we've learned, leadership really counts," Hardin County Judge-Executive Harry Berry said Friday as he stood beside Kentucky's longtime senator at a local community center. "His influence, his savvy, his clout, his political capital, his leadership is what brought this win to the commonwealth of Kentucky and our community."

McConnell's Valentine's Day visit to Radcliff came a few days after he announced Fort Knox had been chosen as the home of the new headquarters, which will be called Fifth Corps (or V Corps) and is expected to bring about 635 more soldiers to the state."

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