Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force (Spain)

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Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force
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Incumbent
General of the Air
Javier Salto Martínez-Avial
since 31 March 2017
Air Staff
Ministry of Defence
Style The Most Excellent
StatusHighest-ranking officer in the Air and Space Force
AbbreviationJEMAE
Member ofAir Staff
National Defence Council
Council of Chiefs of Staff
Reports to Minister of Defence
Seat Air and Space Force Military Headquarters, Madrid
Nominator Defence Minister
After being discussed in the Council of Ministers
Appointer Monarch
Countersigned by the Defence Minister
Term length No fixed term
Constituting instrumentAir Force Act of 1939
Inaugural holderApolinar Sáenz de Buruaga y Polanco
FormationOctober 1, 1936;87 years ago (1936-10-01)
DeputySecond Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force
Website(in Spanish) Website of the Spanish Air and Space Force Staff
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Air and Space Force Military Headquarters

The Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force (JEMAE) is a four-star general that under the authority of the defence minister exercises command over the Spanish Air and Space Force, and as such is the principal military advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff, the Minister of Defence, the Secretary of State for Defence and the Under Secretary of Defence. It's also a member of the Council of Chiefs of Staff and a military advisor to the National Defence Council.

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The JEMAE has two main roles: the support role by which advice the Minister of Defence about the Air and Space Force military policy, the JEMAD about how to use the personnel and their operative status, the SEDEF about the economic, armamentistic and infraestructure policies and the Under Secretary about the personnel and teaching policy; and the operative role by which prepare the force for combat, instructs the military personnel, establishes the organization of its military branch and watches over the welfare of the personnel under his command and evaluates the needs of the Air and Space Force. [1]

The Chief of the Air and Space Force convenes the meetings and coordinates the efforts of the Air Staff (EMA), the main support body of the JEMAE, responsible for providing the necessary elements of judgment to base its decisions, translate these into orders and ensure their fulfillment. The EMA has a whole body of military officers at its service, and among the main officers are include the Second Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force (SEJEMAE), the Permanent Secretary of the Superior Council of the Air and Space Force, the Chief General of the Secretariat General of the Air and Space Staff (SEGE), the Chief General of Technical Services and Information Systems and Telecommunications and its Chef de Cabinet. [2]

The position is currently held by General of the Air Javier Salto Martínez-Avial. [3]

History

The position of Chief of Air Staff was created in 1936, when Apolinar Sáenz de Buruaga y Polanco was promoted to colonel and appointed Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Sáenz de Buruaga y Polanco was not what is today the JEMAE, because at that time, the JEMA was subordinated to a higher rank called Chief of the Air.

The position was not institutionalized until the creation of the Air Ministry in 1939, creating in turn the Air Staff. According to the Air Force Act of that year, the command of the air force belonged to the Head of State, and he delegated it to the Minister of the Air. With this ministry it was wanted to give the air weapon (which had been so important to win the Civil War) the same level that the Army or the Navy had.

The Air Staff was made up of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, a private secretariat for the JEMA and a general one for the Air and Space Staff, and 5 sections: Organization, instruction and mobilization; Information; Operations; Services and Cartography.

At that time, the JEMA exercised its powers over all the aerial resources of the Armed Forces, both those of the Air Force and the aerial means of the Army and the Navy, but always coordinating with the other Chiefs of Staff, although in practice the commanders of the air forces of the Army and of the Navy were of those respective branches, reason why the influence of the JEMA was null. The JEMA was part, together with the Under Secretary of Air and other ministerial officials, of the Administrative Technical Board, permanent advisory body of the Armed Forces Command on the election of prototypes of aircraft and engines, contracts, infrastructure programs, acquisitions, etc., [4] and of the High Command (AEM) (that acted as a simple coordinating body). [5]

The JEMA depended on the Ministry of the Air until the disappearance of this in 1977. Since then, the JEMA has depended on the Ministry of Defence.

List of chiefs of Staff of the Air and Space Force

No.RankNameBeganEnded
1º Colonel Apolinar Sáenz de Buruaga y Polanco1 October 193622 October 1937
2º Colonel Luis Moreno Abella7 October 1939 [6] 27 April 1940 [7] [8]
3º Brigadier general Eduardo González-Gallarza Iragorri27 April 1940 [9] 20 July 1945 [7] [10]
4ºBrigadier generalFrancisco Fernández-Longoria González26 July 1945 [11] 6 June 1958 [12] [13]
5º Lieutenant general Eugenio de Frutos Dieste6 June 1958 [14] 21 September 1960 [15]
6ºLieutenant generalEnrique Palacios y Ruiz de Almodóvar21 September 1960 [16] 5 September 1962 [17]
7ºLieutenant generalManuel Martínez Merino20 September 1962 [18] 31 May 1965 [19]
8ºLieutenant generalLuis Navarro Garnica31 May 1965 [20] [21] 21 March 1970 [22]
9ºLieutenant generalEnrique Jiménez Benamú31 March 1970 [23] 6 April 1972 [24]
10ºLieutenant generalMariano Cuadra Medina7 April 1972 [25] 11 January 1974 [26]
11ºLieutenant generalRamiro Pascual Sanz11 January 1974 [27] 5 March 1976 [28]
12ºLieutenant general (*)Felipe Galarza Sánchez23 March 1976 [29] 12 September 1978 [30]
13ºLieutenant general (**)Ignacio Alfaro Arregui [31] 23 July 197712 September 1978
14ºLieutenant general (**)Emiliano Alfaro Arregui [31] 30 September 197815 January 1982
15ºLieutenant general (**)Emilio García-Conde Ceñal [31] 15 January 198211 January 1984
16ºLieutenant general (**)José Santos Peralba Giráldez [31] 11 January 198431 October 1986
17ºLieutenant general (**)Federico Michavila Pallarés [31] 31 October 198623 May 1990
18ºLieutenant general (**)Ramón Fernández Sequeiros [31] 23 May 199014 February 1994
19ºLieutenant general (***)Ignacio Manuel Quintana Arévalo [31] 14 February 199410 January 1997
20º General of the Air Juan Antonio Lombo López [31] 10 January 199720 April 2001
21ºGeneral of the AirEduardo González-Gallarza Morales [31] 20 April 200126 June 2004
22ºGeneral of the AirFrancisco José García de la Vega [31] 26 June 200418 July 2008
23ºGeneral of the Air José Jiménez Ruiz [31] 18 July 200827 July 2012
24ºGeneral of the AirFrancisco Javier García Arnáiz28 July 201231 March 2017
25ºGeneral of the Air Javier Salto Martínez-Avial [32] 31 March 2017Present

(*) Promoted posthumously to General of the Air in 1999.
(**) Promoted to General of the Air ad honorem in 1999.
(***) Promoted to General of the Air while in office.

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  2. ↑ "Order 1/2016, of January 7, of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, developing the organization of the Air Force" (PDF). Official Gazette of the Ministry of Defence. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
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  5. ↑ "DECREE of August 30, 1939 creating the High Command" (PDF).
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  7. 1 2 Decreto de 20 July 1945 por el que se nombra Ministro del Aire a don Eduardo González Gallarza. Boletín Oficial del Estado núm. 202, de 21/07/1945, página 520.
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  26. ↑ Decreto 58/1974, de 11 de enero, por el que cesa como Jefe del Estado Mayor del Aire el Teniente General del Ejército del Aire don Mariano Cuadra Medina. Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  27. ↑ Decreto 59/1974, de 11 de enero, por el que se nombra Jefe del Estado Mayor del Aire al Teniente General del Ejército del Aire don Ramiro Pascual Sanz. Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  28. ↑ Decreto 447/1976, de 5 de marzo, por el que se dispone que el Teniente General del Ejército del Aire don Ramiro Pascual Sanz pase al Grupo «B». Boletín Oficial del Estado.
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  32. ↑ Real Decreto 352/2017, de 31 de marzo, por el que se nombra Jefe de Estado Mayor del Ejército del Aire al Teniente General del Cuerpo General del Ejército del Aire don Javier Salto Martínez-Avial. Boletín Oficial del Estado (01/04/17). Consultado 1 de abril de 2017.
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