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It ranks above lieutenant general (three-star general) and below general of the Air Force (five-star general). There have been 237 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Air Force. Of these, 233 achieved that rank while on active duty, 3 were promoted after retirement, and one was promoted posthumously.
List of lieutenant generals in the United States Air Force before 1960; List of United States Air Force four-star generals; List of United States Air Force lieutenant generals from 2000 to 2009; List of United States Air Force lieutenant generals from 2010 to 2019; List of United States Air Force lieutenant generals since 2020
United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps: United States Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General (DJAG) U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps: Major General Rebecca R. Vernon [69] U.S. Air Force: U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps: Mobilization Assistant to the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG)
All 131 achieved that rank while on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. Lieutenant generals entered the Air Force via several paths: 61 were commissioned via the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), 44 via Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) at a civilian university, 13 via Air Force Officer Training School (OTS), seven via AFROTC at a ...
Retired Air Force general Arthur J. Lichte was retroactively retired as a major general in 2017 when the secretary of defense withdrew his certification of satisfactory service as a four-star general after the Air Force Office of Special Investigations found Lichte had coerced sex from a subordinate officer while serving as three-star Air Force ...
Marc Sasseville – Retired Air Force lieutenant general and F-16 fighter pilot whose mission (along with three other pilots, including USAF Major Heather Penney, Major Daniel Caine and Captain Brandon Rasmussen) on 9/11 was to find United Flight 93 and destroy it however they could, including ramming the aircraft.
Authorized promotion on the retired list of Regular Army and Regular Air Force officers to the highest temporary grades in which they served satisfactorily for at least six months between September 6, 1940, and June 30, 1946 (George H. Brett, Ira C. Eaker, Harold L. George). Act of October 12, 1949 [Career Compensation Act of 1949] 63 Stat. 806
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 provided separate allocations for institutional four-star officers within each service—7 Army generals, 6 Navy admirals, 9 Air Force generals, and 2 Marine Corps generals—and a joint pool of up to 20 four-star officers allocated to the secretary of defense, which at the time ...