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Immediate Release

General Officer Announcements

The chief of staff, United States Air Force announces the assignment of the following general officers:

Maj. Gen. Kenneth T. Bibb, Jr., director, Strategic Plans, Programs, Requirements and Analyses, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to commander, Eighteenth Air Force, Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Maj. Gen, Mark D. Camerer, director, Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to commander, United States Air Force Expeditionary Center, Air Mobility Command, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Maj. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt, commander, Air Force Recruiting Service, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, to director, Operations and Communications, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

Maj. Gen. Michael L. Lutton, deputy director, Nuclear, Homeland Defense and Current Operations, J-3, Joint Staff, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, Twentieth Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.

Maj. Gen. William A. Spangenthal, director, Operations and Communications, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, to deputy commander, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

Maj. Gen. Mark E. Weatherington, deputy commander, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, to commander, Eighth Air Force, and Commander, Joint-Global Strike Operations Center, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.

Brig. Gen. Laura L. Lenderman, commander, 502d Air Base Wing, and commander, Joint Base San Antonio, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to director, Plans, Programs and Requirements, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Robert K. Lyman, director, Command, Control, Communication, and Cyber Systems (C4), Headquarters United States Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to assistant deputy chief of staff, Cyber Effects Operations and assistant deputy chief information officer, Digital Transformation, Headquarters United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia.

Brig. Gen. Albert G. Miller, commander, Defense Logistics Agency-Energy, Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to director, KC-46A Enterprise Lead, Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Brig. Gen. James D. Peccia III, director, Financial Management, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio to deputy assistant secretary for budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia.

Brig. Gen. Bradley L. Pyburn, director, Cyberspace Operations, deputy chief of staff, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations, Headquarters United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia, to director of operations, Sixteenth Air Force, Air Combat Command, Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Michael T. Rawls, deputy commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Mission Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, to commander, Spaatz Center for Officer Education, and commandant, Air War College, Air University, Air Education and Training Command, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

Brig. Gen. George M. Reynolds, director of operations, Sixteenth Air Force, Air Combat Command, Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland, Texas, to vice commander, United States Air Force Warfare Center, Air Combat Command, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

Brig. Gen. Ryan R. Samuelson, director, United States Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center, United States Central Command, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to deputy director, Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Brig. Gen. James R. Sears Jr., director, Plans, Programs and Requirements, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, to commander, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Brig. Gen. Daniel L. Simpson, deputy chief of staff, Intelligence, Resolute Support/deputy director, J2-P, United States Forces-Afghanistan, United States Central Command, Kabul, Afghanistan, to assistant deputy chief of staff, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia.

Brig. Gen. Edward W. Thomas Jr., director, Public Affairs, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, Air Force Recruiting Service, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

Brig. Gen. select Christopher R. Amrhein, deputy, Deputy Chief of Staff Support, Resolute Support, and director, CJ4, United States Forces-Afghanistan, United States Central Command, Kabul, Afghanistan, to Inspector General, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Brig. Gen. select Larry R. Broadwell Jr., executive officer to the chief of staff, United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, Air Combat Command, Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.

Brig. Gen. select Daniel A. DeVoe, vice commander, 618th Air Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center), Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to commander, 618th Air Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center), Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Brig. Gen. select Leslie A. Maher, senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development, Air Education and Training Command, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

Brig. Gen. select Joshua M. Olson, executive officer to the commander, United States Transportation Command, Headquarters United States Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to commander, 86th Airlift Wing, United States Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
 

The chief, space operations, United States Space Force announces the assignment of the following general officer:

Brig. Gen. select Michael E. Conley, commander, 1st Special Operations Wing, Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Florida, to vice commander, Space Operations Command, United States Space Force, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.