Eighteenth Air Force (Air Forces Transportation) (18 AF) is the only Numbered Air Force (NAF) in Air Mobility Command (AMC) and one of the largest NAFs in the United States Air Force. 18 AF was activated on 28 March 1951, inactivated on 1 January 1958, and re-activated on 1 October 2003. 18 AF is headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Kenneth Stephen Wilsbach is a general in the United States Air Force. He is the commander, United States Pacific Air Forces; commander, Air Component Command, United States Indo-Pacific Command, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
Charles Quinton Brown Jr. is a United States Air Force general who serves as the 22nd chief of staff of the Air Force. He is the first African American to lead any branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Paul Joseph Selva is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the tenth vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, he was the nation's second-highest-ranking military officer, and the highest-ranking officer in the Air Force. He assumed his last assignment on July 31, 2015, and retired on August 1, 2019. Selva is a command pilot with more than 3,100 hours in the C-5, C-17A, C-141B, C-37, KC-10, KC-135A and T-37.
George William Smith Jr. is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps who last served as commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force from September 2021 to August 2023. He most recently served as the Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations until August 2021. He previously served as Senior Military Assistant to the United States Secretary of Defense, a position for which he was nominated by James Mattis in September 2018. He was commissioned in 1985 after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through a Naval ROTC program. He is the son of George W. Smith, who was a major general in the Marine Corps.
Bradley Chance Saltzman is a United States Space Force general who is the second and current chief of space operations. He served as the deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear from 2020 to 2022. He is the first lieutenant general and the first general officer promoted into the Space Force.
DeAnna Marie Burt is a United States Space Force lieutenant general who has served as the deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear since 2022. She previously served as the commander of Combined Force Space Component Command and vice commander of Space Operations Command from 2020 to 2022. She is the first woman to hold the rank of major general in the U.S. Space Force.
William J. Liquori Jr. is a retired United States Space Force lieutenant general who has served as the deputy chief of space operations for strategy, plans, programs, requirements, and analysis from 2020 to 2022. A career space operator, he has operational experiences in support of Operation Southern Watch and Operation Enduring Freedom.
David Wayne Allvin is a United States Air Force four-star general who currently serves as the 40th vice chief of staff of the Air Force. He previously served as the director for strategy, plans, and policy, J-5, on the Joint Staff, and is a senior member, United States Delegation to the United Nations Military Staff Committee, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He provided strategic direction, policy guidance and planning focus to develop and execute the National Military Strategy. As the director for strategy, plans, and policy, he enables the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide military advice to the president, the secretary of defense, and the National Security Council. He has assumed the office of vice chief of staff on November 16, 2020.
David N. Miller Jr. is a United States Space Force major general who serves as the special assistant to the vice chief of space operations. He previously served as the director of operations, training, and force development of the United States Space Command.
Christopher Earle Craige is a retired United States Air Force major general who last served as the commander of the Air Force Personnel Center. Previously, he was the director of strategy, engagement, programs of the United States Africa Command.
Kenneth P. Ekman is a United States Air Force major general who serves as the director of strategy, engagement and programs of the United States Africa Command, replacing Major General John M. Wood. He most recently served as deputy commander for operations of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. Previously, he was the vice commander of the First Air Force.
Roger B. Turner Jr. is a United States Marine Corps major general who has served as the acting Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations since July 2023. He most recently served as the Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division from September 22, 2020, to June 8, 2022. Previously, he served as the Commanding General of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center from 2018 to September 10, 2020.
