List of active duty United States Space Force general officers
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This is a list of active duty United States Space Force general officers. There are currently 22 active duty general officers in the U.S. Space Force. All of them transferred from the United States Air Force. Space Force generals, like in other U.S. armed services, are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.
List of generals[]
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No. | Portrait | Name | Date of rank | Current position | Ref |
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John W. Raymond | 25 October 2016[a] | Chief of Space Operations | [1] |
2 | ![]() |
David D. Thompson | 1 October 2020 | Vice Chief of Space Operations | [2] |
List of lieutenant generals[]
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No. | Portrait | Name | Date of rank | Current position | Ref |
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Nina Armagno | 6 August 2020 | Director of Staff | [3] |
2 | ![]() |
B. Chance Saltzman | 7 August 2020 | Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear |
[4] |
3 | ![]() |
William Liquori | 7 August 2020 | Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Strategy, Plans, Programs, Requirements, and Analysis |
[5] |
4 | ![]() |
Stephen Whiting | 21 October 2020 | Commander, Space Operations Command | [6] |
5 | ![]() |
John E. Shaw | 23 November 2020 | Deputy Commander, United States Space Command | [7] |
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Michael Guetlein | 13 August 2021 | Commander, Space Systems Command | [8] |
List of major generals[]
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No. | Portrait | Name | Date of rank | Current position | Ref |
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Philip Garrant | 22 May 2020[b] | PEO for Ground-Based Weapon Systems, Missile Defense Agency |
[9] |
2 | ![]() |
DeAnna Burt | 7 August 2020[c] | Commander, Combined Force Space Component Command and Vice Commander, Space Operations Command |
[11] |
3 | ![]() |
David N. Miller | 6 July 2021 | Director of Operations, Training, and Force Development, United States Space Command | [12] |
List of brigadier generals[]
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No. | Portrait | Name | Date of rank | Current position | Ref |
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Christopher Povak | 2 March 2019 | Deputy Director, Space Warfighting Analysis Center | [13] |
2 | ![]() |
Steven P. Whitney | 2 April 2019 | Military Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration | [14] |
3 | ![]() |
D. Jason Cothern | 3 July 2019 | Vice Commander, Space Systems Command | [15] |
4 | ![]() |
Gregory Gagnon | 2 August 2019[d] | Director of Intelligence, United States Space Command | [17] |
5 | ![]() |
Troy Endicott | 1 November 2019[e] | Assistant Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear |
[18] |
6 | ![]() |
Stephen G. Purdy | 6 August 2020[f] | Commander, Space Launch Delta 45 and Director of Launch and Range Operations, Space Systems Command | [19] |
7 | ![]() |
Dennis Bythewood | 17 August 2021 | Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force–Space Defense | [20] |
8 | ![]() |
Todd R. Moore | September 2021[21] | Deputy Commander, Space Training and Readiness Command | [22] |
9 | ![]() |
Timothy Sejba | 21 December 2021[23] | PEO for Space Enterprise and Director, Enterprise Corps, Space Systems Command | [24] |
10 | ![]() |
James E. Smith | Frocked | Deputy United States Military Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | [25] |
11 | ![]() |
Devin Pepper | Frocked | Deputy Director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy, United States Space Command | [26] |
Pending appointments[]
Portrait | Name | Current position | New assignment | Status | Ref | |
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Brigadier General Douglas Schiess |
Deputy Commanding General (Operations), Space Operations Command | N/A | Nomination sent to the Senate, 29 July 2021 |
[27][28][29] |
History[]
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Before the establishment of the Space Force, the Space Force Planning Task Force considered two different scenarios or models for the number of general officers in the new service: the lean and demanding models. The lean Space Force model called for 41 general officers with 3 generals, 6 lieutenant generals, 12 major generals, and 20 brigadier generals. The demanding Space Force model, on the other hand, has 45 general officers with 3 generals, 6 lieutenant generals, 13 major generals, and 23 brigadier generals.[30]
On 20 December 2020, with the establishment of the United States Space Force, General John W. Raymond, became the first member of the new service, and hence the very first general officer in the Space Force.[31]
By July 2020, four U.S. Air Force major generals were nominated for transfer to the Space Force and promotion to lieutenant generals.[32] On 14 August 2020, then-Major General B. Chance Saltzman transferred to the Space Force and was promoted to lieutenant general, becoming the service's lieutenant general and the first general officer promoted in the new service.[33] Three days later, then-Major General Nina Armagno also transferred to the Space Force and was promoted to lieutenant general, becoming the service's first female general officer.[34]
On 1 October 2020, then-U.S. Air Force lieutenant general David D. Thompson transferred into the Space Force and was promoted to general, becoming the first to hold the office of vice chief of space operations.[35]
In January 2021, four colonels were nominated for promotion to brigadier general, becoming the first Space Force general officers who were promoted directly as brigadier generals in the service.[36] In April 2021, three U.S. Air Force major generals and six brigadier generals were nominated for transfer into the Space Force, all of them career space professionals working either space operations or space acquisitions.[37][38] On May 7, 2021, Major General DeAnna Burt transferred to the Space Force, becoming the first major general of the service.[10]
On 19 October 2021, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Gregory Gagnon transferred into the Space Force after volunteering. A career intelligence and cyber officer, he is the first general officer of the service who is a non-career space professional, or not coming from either space operations or space acquisitions career fields.[16]
See also[]
- List of United States Space Force four-star generals
- List of United States Space Force three-star generals
Notes[]
- ^ Raymond was promoted to general on 25 October 2016 but only became an officer of the United States Space Force on 20 December 2019, the day the new service was created.
- ^ Garrant was promoted to major general on 24 September 2019 but only transferred to the United States Space Force in ~June 2021.
- ^ Burt was promoted to major general on 7 August 2020 but only transferred to the United States Space Force on 7 May 2021.[10]
- ^ Gagnon was promoted to brigadier general on 2 August 2019 but only transferred to the United States Space Force on 19 October 2021.[16]
- ^ Endicott was promoted to brigadier general on 1 November 2019 but only transferred to the United States Space Force in May 2021.
- ^ Purdy was promoted to brigadier general on 6 August 2020 but only transferred to the United States Space Force on ~1 June 2021.
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