Surgeon General of the United States Air Force

The Surgeon General of the Air Force is the senior-most Medical Service officer in the United States Department of the Air Force and is the principal medical advisor for both the United States Air Force and United States Space Force. In recent times, this has been a lieutenant general who serves as head of the United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS). The Surgeon General is usually the senior Medical Corps officer, but acting surgeons general have been from other branches of the medical service.

History
In September 1947 the combat elements of the Army Air Forces separated from the U.S. Army, forming the United States Air Force. But a few Air Force support functions, such as medical care, remained U.S. Army responsibilities for the next two years. Starting in 1948, the Air Force and the Air Surgeon, Maj. Gen. Malcolm C. Grow (1887-1960), began to convince the U.S. Army and the administration of President Harry S. Truman that the Air Force needed its own medical service. In the summer of 1949, Air Force General Order No. 35 established a medical service with the following officer personnel components: Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary Corps, Medical Service Corps, Air Force Nurse Corps, and Women's Medical Specialist Corps.

List of Deputy Surgeons Generals

 * Brig Gen Olin F. McIlnay, 1945???
 * Brig Gen Harry G. Armstrong, June 1949 - December 1949
 * Brig Gen Dan C. Ogle, December 1949 - July 1954
 * Maj Gen John K. Cullen, August 1959 - June 1961
 * Maj Gen Richard L. Bohannon, June 1961 - December 1963
 * Maj Gen Alonzo A. Towner, July 1966 - May 1970
 * Maj Gen Maxwell Wensel Steel Jr., September 1, 1972 - August 1975
 * Maj Gen Benjamin R. Baker, August 1975 - December 1976
 * Maj Gen Garth B. Dettinger, December 1976 - May 1980
 * Maj Gen James G. Sanders, October 1988 - October 1991
 * Maj Gen Leonard M. Randolph Jr., November 1999 - July 2001
 * Maj Gen James G. Roudebush, July 2001 - July 2006
 * Maj Gen Charles B. Green, August 2006 - August 2009
 * Maj Gen Byron C. Hepburn, August 2009 - November 2010
 * Maj Gen Thomas W. Travis, November 2010 - July 2012
 * Maj Gen Mark A. Ediger, July 2012-June 2015
 * Maj Gen Dorothy A. Hogg, June 2015–June 2018
 * Maj Gen Sean L. Murphy, June 2018-June 2021
 * Maj Gen John DeGoes, June 2021-present