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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.
Increased percentage of general officers in the Air Force that may be appointed above grade of major general from 16.3% to 16.4%. Revised cap on total number of authorized Air Force general officers to be reduced to 208, of which 43 may be appointed in grade of lieutenant general pending a congressional report by the secretary of defense.
Entries in the following list of lieutenant generals are indexed by the numerical order in which each officer was promoted to that rank while on active duty, or by an asterisk (*) if the officer did not serve in that rank while on active duty in the U.S. Air Force or was promoted to four-star rank while on active duty in the U.S. Air Force.
Retired Air Force Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is pinned with his fourth star on 10 December 1998. The modern rank of general was established by the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, which authorized the President to designate certain positions of importance to carry that rank.
Raymond Simeon Miller (December 14, 1891 – September 27, 1961) was a United States military brigadier general and military aviation pioneer. Known as the "Father of the Air National Guard" [1] for his historical flight in 1920 that resulted in the formation of the first federally recognized National Guard aviation unit after the Militia Bureau had authorized states to organize such units ...
Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-511-0. USAF Test Pilot School 50 Years and Beyond. Privately Published. 1994. Young, James O. (2007). "Forging Aerospace Power for America" (PDF). U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center. Archived from the original (PDF ...
Special Assistant to the Chief of Air Force Reserve for Reserve Space Personnel Policy and Integration U.S. Air Force Reserve (AFR) Major General Anne B. Gunter [99] [100] U.S. Air Force: Air Force Special Operations Command: Air Force Special Operations Command: Deputy Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
The United States Military Academy was founded in 1802, through the Military Peace Establishment Act signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson.The legislation served the dual purpose of maintaining a well-trained standing militia at the ready, and of bringing to fruition Jefferson's vision of a national university. [1]