General Craig R. McKinley, USAF is the 26th and current Chief, National Guard Bureau. He is the first officer from the National Guard to ever achieve the grade of a four-star general. He also joins George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant as four-star officers who have served as Guardsmen in their military career. Prior to becoming chief, he served as the Director, Air National Guard from May 2006 to November 17, 2008. He assumed his current assignment on November 17, 2008.
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- General Craig R. McKinley, USAF is the 26th and current Chief, National Guard Bureau. He is the first officer from the National Guard to ever achieve the grade of a four-star general. He also joins George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant as four-star officers who have served as Guardsmen in their military career. Prior to becoming chief, he served as the Director, Air National Guard from May 2006 to November 17, 2008. He assumed his current assignment on November 17, 2008. As the Chief, National Guard Bureau, General McKinley is the senior uniformed officer of the National Guard of the United States, and the state National Guard, responsible for formulating, developing and coordinating all policies, programs and plans affecting more than half a million federalized and nonfederalized Army National Guard and Air National Guard personnel. Appointed by the President, he serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He also serves as the principal National Guard adviser to Secretary of Defense though the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on all National Guard issues. As National Guard Bureau Chief, he serves as the Army's and Air Force's official channel of communication with state governors and Adjutants General concerning state National Guards. General McKinley received his commission in 1974 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program at Southern Methodist University. He has served in numerous assignments in flying and operations, as well as command positions at group, wing, sector and field operating agency levels. He has also served as Commander, 1st Air Force (1 AF) and Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Southeast Region, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. General McKinley is a command pilot with over 4,000 flight hours, primarily in the T-38 Talon, F-106 Delta Dart, F-16 Fighting Falcon and F-15 Eagle. Additionally, General McKinley has been pilot in command in the C-131 Samaritan and C-130 Hercules Operational Support Airlift aircrafts.
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26th Chief of the National Guard Bureau
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- General Craig R. McKinley, USAF is the 26th and current Chief, National Guard Bureau. He is the first officer from the National Guard to ever achieve the grade of a four-star general. He also joins George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant as four-star officers who have served as Guardsmen in their military career. Prior to becoming chief, he served as the Director, Air National Guard from May 2006 to November 17, 2008. He assumed his current assignment on November 17, 2008.
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