He felt like the trip “had a lot to do with how the song was written because I saw firsthand just the precision and the … amazing assets that we have in our folks who wear the uniform. “I got to see so much of what our now-Guardians-but at the time they were Airmen-do and just was blown away by their mission,” Teachenor said.

As Teachenor’s enlistment wound down in 2019, he even went along on a trip with the two leaders to Thule Air Base in Greenland, which performs missions in space surveillance and missile defense. “Jay” Raymond and Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force Roger A. He also met today’s Chief of Space Operations Gen. “What was very interesting about my time of service was I knew what the space capabilities were for space operators before they were Guardians,” Teachenor said.