Air National Guard leaders and enlisted Guardsmen on Friday called a legislative proposal to move units focused on space missions to the Space Force a threat to their existence and also said many of those personnel would rather retire or retrain into another job instead.

Nearly every governor opposes a Pentagon plan to unilaterally shift space-focused Air National Guard units from their purview to the U.S. Space Force. The governors of 48 states and five territories signed on to a letter earlier this week to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressing their opposition to a proposal sent to Congress in