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general of the air force

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noun

  1. the highest ranking officer in the U.S. Air Force.


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As a former judge advocate in the Coast Guard and a retired Air Force major general who served as deputy legal counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and deputy judge advocate general of the Air Force, we offer some perspective on how members of the military can and should respond to such orders.

From Slate

She also served as the first woman Inspector General of the Air Force.

From Seattle Times

“Golsteyn is the most troubling, because the system was never given a chance to work,” said Charles Dunlap, a retired major general who was the deputy judge advocate general of the Air Force and is now the head of Duke University’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.

From New York Times

General Davis, who died in 2002 at age 89, has a resume that includes commanding the all-black 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Red Tails, and becoming the first black general of the Air Force.

From New York Times

Gen. Thomas W. Travis, the surgeon general of the Air Force, said in an interview Tuesday.

From New York Times