AF Biographies

This database holds biographical information on Air Force leaders, active duty, Reserve and retired general officers; current senior executives; secretaries of the Air Force; and chief master sergeants of the Air Force. Air Force biographies may not have been prepared for some general officers before retirement. If a name is not listed, an Air Force biography is not available. For biography changes and updates please send an e-mail to Air Force Biographies from a .mil e-mail address. 

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091222-F-JZ028-002 MAJOR GENERAL JOHN W. WHITE
Retired   April 01, 1966   Died  November 16, 1992
John William White was born in Uvalde, Texas in 1910. He graduated from Uvalde High School in 1928 and attended St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas for one year and Texas A&M for one semester in the fall of 1929, in 1930, he received a Congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. He graduated in 1934. Second Lieutenant White's first
4/23
2003
Default Air Force Logo MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT M. WHITE
Retired   February 01, 1981   Died  March 17, 2010
Major General Robert M. White is chief of staff, Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. General White was born in New York City in 1924. He attended New York public schools, earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from New York University in 1951 and a master of science degree in business administration
4/23
2003
091222-F-JZ028-001 MAJOR GENERAL MAJOR S. WHITE
Retired   March 01, 1969   Died  April 04, 1994
Major General Major Samuel White is command surgeon, Pacific Air Forces. In this capacity he advises the commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces on all medical matters and directs the command medical service program. His responsibilities include the command's hospital and dispensary systems, preventive medicine policies, flight medicine, aeromedical
4/23
2003
030707-F-JZ509-696 GENERAL THOMAS DRESSER WHITE
Retired   June 30, 1961   Died  December 22, 1965
General Thomas Dresser White is the fourth chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. The general was born in Walker, Minn., in 1901. Upon graduation from the U.S. Military Academy July 2, 1920, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry and immediately promoted to first lieutenant. Entering the Infantry School at Fort Benning,
4/23
2003
Default Air Force Logo BRIGADIER GENERAL WILL WALTER WHITE
  Died  March 01, 1976
Will Walter White was born in Bozeman, Mont., in 1900. He graduated from Fergus County High School at Lewistown, in 1917, and joined the U.S. Army in September 1918 as a member of the Student Army Training Corps at the University of Montana. He entered the U.S. Military Academy in July 1919, graduated in June 1923, and was commissioned a second
4/23
2003
091222-F-JZ027-985 BRIGADIER GENERAL ERNEST J. WHITE
Retired   July 01, 1970   Died  March 18, 1988
Brigadier General Ernest J. White is commander of the 61st Military Airlift Wing (Military Airlift Command), with headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. General White was born in Falls City, Neb., in 1917. He graduated from Falls City High School in 1935 and attended the University of Nebraska from 1935 to 1938. He entered the U.S. Military
4/23
2003
080619-F-JZ510-593 BRIGADIER GENERAL DALE TIMOTHY "TIM" WHITE
Retired   August 14, 2006
Brig. Gen. Dale Timothy "Tim" White is mobilization assistant to the Director of Public Affairs, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. He works with the director to advise and support the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force, as well as other senior leaders, and is responsible for creating and executing strategies to
6/19
2008
100319-F-JZ026-857 EARL R. WHITE
Retired   February 05, 2016
Mr. Earl R White, a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader, serves as the Special Intelligence Adviser to the Director, Space Protection Program, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The SPP is a joint program between AFSPC and the National Reconnaissance Office. The SPP advises Department of Defense and intelligence community
3/19
2010
101004-F-JZ024-158 JOHN E. WHITE

John E. White, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Director of Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Engineering and Technical Management/Services Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He provides overall technical management for the development and support of major weapons systems across the AFLCMC enterprise. He is
6/15
2010
SESWhite JOY M. WHITE

Joy M. White, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is the Executive Director, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. She is the principal assistant to the Program Executive Officer for Space for acquisition strategies, portfolio management and program execution. She acts for and with the Commander in
6/12
2008
080619-F-JZ510-594 MAJOR GENERAL JERRY E. WHITE
Retired   July 01, 1997
Maj. Gen. Jerry E. White is mobilization assistant to the Commander, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. General White entered the Air Force in 1959 as a distinguished graduate of the University of Washington Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He served as a mission controller at the height of the
6/19
2008
Default Air Force Logo LIEUTENANT GENERAL ENNIS C. WHITEHEAD
Retired   July 01, 1951   Died  October 12, 1964
Lieutenant General Ennis C. Whitehead was born in Westphalia, Kan., in 1895. He attended the University of Kansas and entered the Army as a flying cadet on Aug. 16, 1917. From June 1917 until November 1917 he was stationed at Chanute Field, Ill., where he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers Reserve
3/16
2011
091222-F-JZ028-000 MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS B. WHITEHOUSE
Retired   November 01, 1967
Thomas Bernard Whitehouse was born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1914. He attended East High School in Rochester, the Admiral Farragut Academy, Toms River, N.J., and the University of Illinois prior to entering the U.S. Military Academy from which he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1939. Upon graduation from West Point, General Whitehouse
4/23
2003
130730-F-JZ034-860 BRIGADIER GENERAL STEPHEN N. WHITING

Selected for promotion to major general Brig. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting is the Director of Integrated Air, Space, Cyberspace and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The directorate is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping Air Force Space
2/05
2016
110405-F-JZ021-843 MAJOR GENERAL WAYNE E. WHITLATCH
Retired   June 01, 1982
Major General Wayne E. Whitlatch is commander of the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center, a separate operating agency, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. General Whitlatch was born in 1928, in Nebraska City, Neb., and graduated from high school in Omaha, Neb. He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the
4/23
2003
071107-F-JZ500-985 MAJOR GENERAL JAMES A. WHITMORE
Retired   November 01, 2011
Maj. Gen. James A. Whitmore is Director of Intelligence, Operations and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. He is responsible for developing policies and programming resources for Air Force technical and aircrew training programs. This includes undergraduate flying and initial skills
3/29
2005
Default Air Force Logo MAJOR GENERAL LYMAN P. WHITTEN
Retired   July 01, 1956   Died  September 29, 1989
Lyman P. Whitten was born in Malden, Mass., in 1897. He was attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he enlisted as an aviation cadet in the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps on Nov. 3, 1917. The following February he graduated from the U.S. School of Military Aeronautics at Princeton University and was sent to Taliaferro Field, Fort Worth,
4/23
2003
110209-F-JZ022-782 DR. MICHAEL C. WICKS
Retired   May 06, 2011
Dr. Michael C. Wicks, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is the Senior Scientist for Sensor Signal Processing, Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y. He specializes in the science and technology needed for superior U.S. air and space systems for reconnaissance, surveillance, precision
4/09
2004
040326-F-JZ509-228 DR. SHEILA E. WIDNALL

Served as secretary of the Air Force from Aug. 6, 1993 to Oct. 31, 1997Sheila E. Widnall is Secretary of the Air Force. In that role she is responsible for the current and future readiness of the Air Force to accomplish its missions. She oversees the recruiting, training and equipping of the 380,000 men and women on active duty, 251,000 members of
4/23
2003
090925-F-JZ029-192 BRIGADIER GENERAL GEOFFREY P. WIEDEMAN
Retired   May 01, 1974   Died  January 16, 2016
Brigadier General Geoffrey P. Wiedeman is command surgeon, Air Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.General Wiedeman was born in London, England, in 1917. He received a baccalaureate in philosophy from the College Municipal de Cannes in France in June 1934. He then emigrated to the United States, where he attended the University of
2/05
2016
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