The Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is a military decoration of the United States Air Force and United States Space Force and is presented to airmen and guardians to recognize distinguished and exceptionally meritorious service to the United States while serving in a duty or position of great responsibility. The Distinguished Service Medal was created by an act of the United States Congress on July 6, 1960 and was first awarded in 1965. Prior to the creation of the Distinguished Service Medal in 1960, United States Air Force airmen were awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.
The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is a postgraduate institution and provider of professional and continuing education for the United States Armed Forces and is part of the United States Air Force. It is in Ohio at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton. AFIT is a component of the Air University and Air Education and Training Command.
The United States Military Training Mission (USMTM) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a Security Assistance Organization (SAO) which manages and is primarily funded by Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases between the United States Government and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. USMTM was the result of a meeting between King Abdul Aziz and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Great Bitter Lake.
David Dean Thompson is a retired United States Space Force general who served as the first vice chief of space operations from 2020 to 2023. He served as the vice commander of the Air Force Space Command from 2018 to 2020.
Derek Charles France is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as the commander of the Ninth Air Force. He previously served as the commander of Third Air Force.
Jason R. Armagost is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the commander of the Eighth Air Force. He previously served as the director of strategic plans, programs and requirements of Air Force Global Strike Command from 2021 to 2023, during which he concurrently served as the deputy commander of Security Assistance Group - Ukraine from October 2022 to March 2023. He has also commanded the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing.
Anthony W. Genatempo is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the director of the C3I Networks Directorate at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. He previously commanded the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from 2020 to 2022.
David A. Harris Jr. is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the deputy chief of staff for Air Force Futures of the United States Air Force. He previously served as a special assistant to the chief of staff of the United States Air Force.
Robert Scott Jobe is a United States Air Force major general who has served as the director of force design, integration, and innovation of the United States Air Force. He previously served as the director of plans, programs, and requirements of the Air Combat Command.
David B. Lyons is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the commander of the Fifteenth Air Force. He previously served as the director of air and space operations of the Air Combat Command.
Clark J. Quinn is a United States Air Force major general who has served as the deputy commander of Air Education and Training Command since July 2024. He most recently served as the commander of Nineteenth Air Force from 2024. He previously served as the deputy commander of the Ninth Air Force.
Michael J. Lutton is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who has served as the deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command since February 2024. He most recently served as commander of the Twentieth Air Force from 2020 to 2024. Previously, he was the Deputy Director for Nuclear and Homeland Defense Operations of the Joint Staff.
David H. Tabor is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the director of programs of the United States Air Force. He most recently served as the Commander of the Special Operations Command Europe. Previously, he was the Assistant Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command.
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.
Robert W. Claude is a United States Air Force major general who served as the mobilization assistant to the chief of space operations. He previously served as the mobilization assistant to the commander of the United States Space Command.
Claude K. Tudor Jr. is a United States Air Force major general who has served as the director for operations and cyber of the United States Africa Command since July 2023. He most recently served as the commander of Combined Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant. Prior to that, he served as the Chief of Staff of the Pacific Air Forces. Previously, he served as the Director of Air Force Resilience of the United States Air Force and, prior to that, he was the Commander of the 24th Special Operations Wing.
This is a list of all commanders, deputy commanders, senior enlisted leaders, and chiefs of staff of the United States Indo-Pacific Command.
This is a list of all commanders of Space Training and Readiness Command and all its historical antecedents, organizations that took its lineage.
John R. Edwards is a United States Air Force Major general who is currently the Director for Strategic Capabilities Policy on the National Security Council at the White House. Edwards was born in Saigon, Vietnam to an American father and Vietnamese mother. His father was a former Army noncommissioned officer assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group who later served as a civilian with the U.S. Navy. He was brought up in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating from the University of Hawaii and commissioning as a second lieutenant in the Air Force in 1995. He is a Master Combat Systems Officer with more than 2,500 flight hours including 237 combat hours in operations Allied Force and Enduring Freedom. He has served as the director of the Nuclear Enterprise Directorate of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency since June 2020. He previously commanded the 28th Bomb Wing.
