Alarm Red sirens were blaring and incoming missiles were targeting her site. Specialist Gray stayed at her console anyway, waging electromagnetic warfare against a determined adversary until her commander physically pulled her away. That account came from Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess at the Air and Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space and Cyber Conference in September. It offers the clearest public picture yet of Space Force’s role in Operation Epic Fury and confirms a fundamental shift: space is no longer a support domain, but an active battlefield. Gray deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility as part of the 42nd Electromagnetic Warfare Combat Detachment, a unit operating under U.S. Space Forces-Central since at least 2024. Within hours of Epic Fury’s launch at 1:15 a.m. on February 28, 2026, she received a top-priority target package.

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