TOP WOMEN IN THE ARMED FORCES 2013
Lt. Gen. (Select) Michelle Johnson Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations and Intelligence Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1981, Lt. Gen. (Select) Michelle Johnson, is poised to take the reins as the superintendent of the USAF Academy. A command pilot with more than 3, 600 flight hours, the general has served around the globe. From 1989 through 1992, she taught political science at the Air Force Academy, before departing to serve at the White House as a military assistant to the President. Currently, she is posted to Belgium where she served as NATO’s deputy chief of staff for Operations and Intelligence. completed graduate studies as a Rhodes Scholar before earning her pilot wings in 1984.
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replacement value. It encompasses 80,000 full-time person- nel, 145,000 students and a retiree community of more than 250,000. Gen. Carter entered the Air Force in September 1985 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Purdue University. A career civil engineer, she has served in a variety of positions at the base, major command and Air Staff levels, and commanded a civil engineer squadron and an air base wing.
Maj. Gen. Sharon Dunbar Commander, Air Force District of Washington, Joint Base Andrews, Md.
Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command
t. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski is respon- sible for 5,000 employees and a budget of $10 billion. She manages research, design, development, acquisi- tion, and sustainment of satellites and their command and control systems. The general served most recently as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Her portfolio includes military satellite communication, missile warning, navigation and timing, space- based weather, space launch and test ranges, and other emerg- ing evolutionary space programs. She entered the Air Force in 1978 through the ROTC program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She then attended the University of California at Berkeley and received a doctorate of philosophy in chemical engineering in 1981, entering active duty in 1982.
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aj. Gen. Sharon Dunbar com- mands the Air Force voice and component to the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region, as well as organizes trains and equips combat forces for the aerospace expeditionary forces, homeland operations, civil sup- port, national special security events and ceremonial events. She was commissioned in 1982 upon graduation from the Air Force Academy. She has served in a variety of acquisition, political-military and force sup- port positions. Her commands include a mission support squadron, Air Force Basic Military Training and an air base wing. Prior, she served as director of Force Management Policy, deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.
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Maj. Gen. Barbara Faulkenberry Vice Commander, 18th Air Force
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Maj. Gen. (Select) Theresa Carter Commander, 502nd Air Base Wing and Joint Base San Antonio, Texas
502nd Air Base Wing that consolidates installation management support functions for a military community with an annual budget of more than $700 million and a $10.9 billion plant
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aj. Gen. (Select) Theresa Carter commands the 8,000-strong
aj. Gen. Barbara Faulkenberry reports to the commander
responsible for more than 39,000 active- duty Airmen, reservists, and civilians and approximately 1,300 airlift and air refueling aircraft. Prior to her current assignment, the general was director for logistics, U.S. Africa Command, Stuttgart, Germany, where she served as the principal logistics adviser to the commander, U.S. Africa Command,
responsible for executing all Department of Defense logistics activities in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility. Gen. Faulkenberry entered the Air Force in 1982 as a graduate of the Air Force Academy. Her career includes a variety of operational and staff positions to include squadron, group, wing, and task force command.
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