United States Department of the Air Force

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Seal of the Department of the Air Force
Lisa Disbrow, Acting Secretary of the Air Force since January 20, 2017

The Department of the Air Force (dt. "Air Force Office") was re-established on September 17, 1947 under the National Security Act . It emerged from the spin-off of the US Army Air Forces (formerly US Army Air Corps ) from the Department of the Army .

Mission and responsibility

The Department of the Air Force is responsible for all administrative and technical matters of the US Air Force, which was founded in the same year . Together with the two other specialist departments of the armed forces, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy , it has formed the administrative substructure of the latter since the founding of the National Military Establishment as the predecessor of the Department of Defense , the US Department of Defense .

The likewise formed in 1947, from which, as well as the Ministry of War emerged Department of the Army had - unlike the 1789-created Department of the Navy - never a standalone cabinet rank .

The Department of the Air Force is headed by a civilian with the title Secretary of the Air Force ( SECAF ).

The military-operational chain of command of the Air Force is the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force before, in personal union , the US Air Force as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff represents (United chief of staff) and represents.

management

The office of Secretary of the Air Force has been temporarily held by Lisa Disbrow since January 20, 2017 .

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