Space Force Capt. Daniel Reynolds, on the right in front of the flag, graduated Oct. 13 from the Army-run combat leadership course, earning the coveted Ranger Tab and marking the Space Force’s first completion of the weekslong combat leadership course. (Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade/Facebook)

Space Force Capt. Daniel Reynolds tackled a new frontier where no guardian has gone before when he recently completed the Army’s grueling Ranger School course.

Reynolds graduated Oct. 13 from the weekslong combat leadership course and earned the coveted Ranger Tab, a first for the fledgling military service, Space Force officials said Monday. A photo shared on social media by the Ranger School showed Reynolds posing with other guardians, a Space Force flag and his new Ranger Tab after graduating from the course last week at Fort Moore, Ga.

Reynolds, a satellite communications test director stationed at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, has become a pioneer in the Space Force. In 2021, just months after transferring from the Air Force to Space Force, Reynolds became the first guardian to graduate from the Army’s Air Assault School. Last year, the captain completed the Army’s Sapper Leader Course, becoming the first guardian to earn a Sapper Tab, according to the Defense Department.

Reynolds has also completed the Army’s Airborne course.

Reynolds, 29, was commissioned into the Air Force in 2017 after graduating from the Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s in astronautical engineering, according to the service.

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