What the Warfighter Should Know about Space A Report on U.S. Space Command Joint Space Support Teams

U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) began an outreach program in 1993 to better support the regional warfighting Commanders in Chief (CINCs). The main emphasis of this initiative was to train a group of officers from within the command on exactly what space had to offer the warfighter, and deploy them to the individual CINCs to integrate space into their resident missions, tasks and operations plans. These officers formed what came to be known as the Joint Space Support Teams (JSST). The customer oriented approach that began to develop by the use of these teams was in no small measure spurred on a few years earlier by the dramatic, yet apparently ad hoc methodology of the Scud warning reports transmitted to coalition forces during the Gulf War.