Force Major General Reynes will oversee the command’s concept development and experimentation on capabilities and concepts required for the next decade and prototyping of capabilities for the joint war fighter. Major General Reynes has also held several positions at the Pentagon, including F-16 program ele- ment monitor and military assistant to the executive secretary of the Depart- ment of Defense. In his last position as director of U.S. Forces-Iraq’s Air Compo- nent Coordination, he was responsible for U.S. air assets in Iraq. Major General Reynes earned his commission from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1978, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in military history. He graduated from un- dergraduate pilot training in 1979 and has more than 3,800 hours in fighter aircraft. His commands include the 35th Fighter Squadron at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, 53rd Test and Evaluation Group at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., 53rd Wing at Eglin AFB, FL, and 51st Fighter Wing, Osan AB, South Korea. He earned an M.A. in national security and strategy studies at the National War College in 1996. He holds numerous awards and decorations including the Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Aerial Achievement Medal with Silver and two bronze oak leaf clusters and the Air Force Commendation Medal, among others. He was named the 17th Air Force’s Pilot of the Year in 1985.
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Brigadier General Ste- ven L. Sala- zar assumed command of the Joint Multination- al Training Command
on August 28, 2009, upon return from Iraq, where he served as commanding general of the Coalition Military Assis- tance Training Team under the Multina- tional Security Transition Command-Iraq from 2008 to 2009.
Brigadier General Salazar began his
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service as an enlisted infantryman in 1976. He was later commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1982. Brigadier General Salazar’s command positions include company com- mand with D Company and Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Bat- talion 7th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division; battalion command with 1st Battalion 8th Infantry Regiment, Fort Carson, Co.; and brigade command with the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division including the brigade’s deployment to Iraq in 2005.
Following brigade command, Brigadier General Salazar became the 17th com- mander of the Operations Group for the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Ca. from 2006 to 2007 and was Deputy Commanding General of the Training Support Division (West) at Fort Carson, Co. from 2007 – 2008.
Brigadier General Salazar’s staff positions include aide de camp to the command- ing general, United States Army Training Support Center, Fort Eustis; battalion operations officer of 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment and operations officer of 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. Brigadier General Salazar’s military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Australian Army Com- mand and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College, where he received a Master of Strategic Studies.
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Marine Corps Major General Angela Salinas was nomi- nated for appointment to the rank of major general in April 2010. Major General Angela Salinas is the director of Manpower Management Division, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps. On August 4, 2006, when she assumed command of Ma- rine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, she became the first woman to command the Recruit Depot.
On August 2, 2006, Major General Salinas became the first Hispanic woman to become a United States Marine Corps general officer, and the sixth woman in the Marine Corps to reach the rank of brigadier general. She began her military career when she enlisted in the Marine Corps in May 1974. Following recruit training at Parris Island, S.C., she served as a legal services clerk until 1977, when she was selected for the Enlisted Commissioning Program and commissioned a second lieu- tenant in December 1977.
In June 1989, Major General Salinas assumed command of Recruiting Station Charleston and became the first woman in the Marine Corps to command a recruit- ing station. In June 1992, she became the first woman assigned as a combat service support ground monitor responsible for the assignments of over 1,000 senior officers. She was the first woman assigned as a plans and policy officer for a major combatant command in 1999 and in May 2001 when she assumed command of the 12th Marine Corps District, became the first woman to serve as a recruiting district commanding officer. She is the first woman to command the Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Western Recruiting Region in San Diego.
Major General Salinas is a 1976 graduate of Dominican College of San Rafael, Ca., where she received her B.A. in history. She received her master’s degree from the Naval War College in 1992. She is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School, the Naval War College’s Command and Staff College and the Army War College. She has received Meritorious Service awards from the Federal Employed Women (FEW), the National Image, Latina Style magazine, and the Molly Marine Award from the Woman Marine Association. She received recognition for her leadership by the Navy League and was recognized as a “ground breaker” by Women In the Military for Service to America and has been named as one of the top 100 most influential Hispanics in the country.
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