It may look and sound like basic boot camp for soldiers, sailors, marines or airmen.

But these are guardians in the U.S. Space force, the first new branch of the armed services in more than 70 years.

And this is the first ever guardian only basic training led entirely by Space force instructors.

This is still the profession of arms. This is still the United States military.

This is not space camp.

Master sergeant Eric Maestro is the Space force's first military training instructor, and he's in charge of all training for these 71 recruits over seven and half weeks.

I come from like an air force family, so when space force was around like most people like, "what is that? "like, " that's real?"

They're like, "What? that's a real thing?"

Yeah, that's a real thing.

The biggest change between this basic training and other boot camps is in the classroom.

These guardians are being taught a brand new space for specific curriculum.

Everything from space history to space vocabulary.

So if I say the word leo, "l" "e" "o." That stands for low Earth orbit, right?

You need to start thinking along these lines that the world is bigger than just what you see that we go out to 22 and half thousand miles into orbit.

None of these guardians are actually going to space.

They'll be operating U.S. military satellites from the ground or analyzing satellites from countries like China and Russia.

You're not dealing with tanks or ballistics or anything like that.

You're dealing with little blips on a little computer screen.

It's a different type of war fighter one that has to strain their eyes and flex their mind more than their muscles, which leads to the other big difference about this basic training.

We want to build guardians and what a guardian is about our core values.

Tell me what courage means to you.

I think courage for me means being able to ask for help when you need it.

It's a mindset made for a modern military force.

Maybe you need to step away and have some meditation time, whatever it is.

We want our guardians to be strong and healthy from a diversity aspect and inclusivity aspect.

We want them to feel like you can express that in our service.

Coming here like I had a lot of people they are like, you know you're gonna be the only black girl there.

But I even have two other like teammates that look like me.

- Are there a lot of space nerds like yourself? Like Star Wars, Star Trek... - Oh, sure. And I'm not even that kind of space nerd, never even seen it.

- What kinds of space nerds are you? - Never even seen it.

Like I used to watch live streams and like the moon rotating just like I'm into that type of space.

Just the kind of nerd that the space force is looking for to protect and shape a new domain of warfare.

We need our own Space force basic training because we are our own branch now.

Like we broke away, so we need to stop being in the shadows of the Air force.