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The Forrest L. Vosler Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (Vosler NCO Academy, Vosler NCOA, or NCOA) is a
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unit. Assigned to
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's Space Delta 13, it is responsible for training newly promoted
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s. It is named after
Forrest L. Vosler Forrest Lee Vosler, (July 29, 1923 – February 17, 1992) was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress radio operator who was the second enlisted U.S. airman to receive the Medal of Honor. Early life Vosler was born at Lyndonville, New York in 1923 to Wil ...
who was an enlisted
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and a
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awardee. It was transferred from the
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to the Space Force on 21 September 2020 and is headquartered at
Peterson Space Force Base Peterson Space Force Base, previously Peterson Air Force Base, Peterson Field, and Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, is a United States Space Force base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and is home to ...
,
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.


List of commandants

* CMSgt Thomas Young, ~2007 * CMSgt Gregory Stone, ~2011 * CMSgt Todd Krulick, 27 October 2014 * CMSgt Robert Woodin, 18 February 2016 * CMSgt April L. Brittain, April 2022 * CMSgt Michael List, 18 June 2024https://www.linkedin.com/posts/april-brittain_yesterday-i-relinquished-responsibility-activity-7209357659362271232-iItr


See also

* Space Delta 13


References


External links

* * Military education and training in the United States {{US-mil-unit-stub