Bennie Luke Davis was a United States Air Force general who served as the commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command, and as the director of Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, with its headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. The command was the major American nuclear deterrent force with bombers, tankers, reconnaissance aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinated United States nuclear war plans and develops the Single Integrated Operational Plan.
Lori Jean Robinson is a retired United States Air Force general who served as commander of the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) from May 2016 to May 2018. She was the first female officer in the history of the United States Armed Forces to command a major Unified Combatant Command.
Steven Lloyd Kwast is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general. He last served as commander of Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. In that role, he was responsible for the recruiting, training and education of Air Force personnel. The command includes Air Force Recruiting Service, two numbered air forces and Air University. The command operates more than 1,400 trainer, fighter and mobility aircraft, 23 wings, 10 bases and five geographically separated groups. It trains more than 293,000 students per year with approximately 60,000 active-duty, Reserve, Guard, civilian and contractor personnel.
Timothy Michael Ray is a retired United States Air Force general who last served as the commander of Air Force Global Strike Command from August 21, 2018, to August 27, 2021. He concurrently served as the commander of Air Forces Strategic – Air, United States Strategic Command. His two previous assignments were as the Deputy Commander, United States European Command, and as the Commander, Third Air Force. He previously served as the director of global power programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Headquarters United States Air Force, Washington, D.C.
Joseph Lauren Lengyel is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who last served as the 28th chief of the National Guard Bureau from August 2016 to August 2020. As chief, he was responsible for ensuring that nearly 460,000 Army National Guard and Air National Guard personnel are accessible, capable and ready to protect the homeland and to provide combat capabilities to the United States Army and the United States Air Force. Lengyel is a command pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours primarily in the F-16.
Major General William K. James of United States Air Force, was director of the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) between June 1990 and June 1993. Under his leadership Major General James redirected the DMA – a heritage organization of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency – from producing products to meet the requirements of the Cold War to a concept of a Global Geospatial Information System (GGIS) directly accessible to combat commanders of the Rapid Deployment Forces. The GGIS was a major paradigm shift in warfare with the delivery of geographic information to fast-moving military forces.
Major General Philip William Nuber of United States Air Force, was director of the Defense Mapping Agency from December 1994 to May 1996.
Major General Raymund E. O'Mara of United States Air Force, was tenth Director of the Defense Mapping Agency from June 1993 till his retirement in December 1994; with headquarters at Fairfax, Virginia. As director of DMA, O'Mara moved forward with the implementation of the Global Geospatial Information System, and also initiated the agency's reinvention task force.
Major General Robert Alan "Rosie" Rosenberg of United States Air Force was Director of Defense Mapping Agency from July 1985 to September 1987. Throughout his 30-year career with the U.S. Air Force, he was instrumental to the U.S. satellite program. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2005.
Major General Robert Francis Durkin of the United States Air Force was Director of Defense Mapping Agency from October 1987 to June 1990. As director, Durkin restructured the Defense Mapping Agency's international and domestic training in the production and exploitation of geospatial information.
David Dean Thompson is a retired United States Space Force general who last served as the first vice chief of space operations from 2020 to 2023. He previously served as the vice commander of the Space Force from 2018 to 2020.
Mark Damon Kelly is a general in the United States Air Force who currently serves as the commander of Air Combat Command. He previously served as the deputy chief of staff for operations from August 2018 to August 2020. General Mark D. Kelly is a command pilot with more than 6,000 flying hours. His pilot experience is including 800 combat hours in Tactical Fighter-Aircraft.
Tom D. Miller is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the deputy chief of staff for logistics, engineering, and force protection of the U.S. Air Force. He previously commanded the Air Force Sustainment Center from 2021 to 2022.
Andrew J. Gebara is a United States Air Force major general who served as the commander of the Eighth Air Force from 2021 to 2023. He most recently served as Director of Strategic Plans, Programs, and Requirements of the Air Force Global Strike Command. Previously, he was the Deputy Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy of the National Security Council.
John D. Lamontagne is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the deputy commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa. He previously served as the chief of staff of the United States European Command.
This is a list of all commanders, deputy commanders, senior enlisted leaders, and chiefs of staff of the United States Cyber Command.
Joel L. Carey is a United States Air Force major general who serves as Director of Operations, Strategic Deterrence, and Nuclear Integration of U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa since June 2022. He most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Allied Air Command and before that he was the commander of the 18th Wing and, prior to that, the vice commander of the Fifth Air Force.
The commander of Space Operations Command is a lieutenant general who leads the field command that provide space forces to the United States Space Command and supports other unified combatant commands. A senior leader in the Space Force, it is only one of three field commanders and, of which, only one of two held by a lieutenant general.
This is a list of all commanders of Space Training and Readiness Command and all its historical antecedents, organizations that took its lineage.
