Lomax redeployed to Middle East within 72 hours of Venezuela operation
U.S. Space Force electromagnetic-warfare systems are playing a key role in protecting American troops and degrading enemy satellites around the world, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal was granted rare access to a Space Force base in Colorado to learn how the systems work.
The Journal spoke exclusively with the Guardians who flew the electromagnetic-warfare systems overseas in support of operations in both Venezuela and Iran. Among them was Tech. Sgt. Joshua Lomax.
Hours after Lomax jammed enemy satellites to create what the Journal described as a protective bubble around U.S. forces capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, he was given 72 hours to pack up his equipment and head to the Middle East, where the U.S. would soon launch its war against Iran.
“It was incredibly intense,” Lomax told the Journal. “Everybody was head on a swivel.”
The electromagnetic-warfare systems play a key role both in protecting American troops and in degrading enemy satellites around the world, the Journal reported. The Journal’s report includes a video explaining how the U.S. Space Force’s ground-based weapons work.
The reporting was produced by Shelby Holliday, a Wall Street Journal senior video and national security correspondent based in New York City. Holliday was part of the Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2019. Her reporting has taken her to China, Guam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Rwanda, Kenya, Guantanamo Bay, Mexico and beyond, according to the Journal.