Eric Kenny
Eric Kenny | |
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| File:Eric Kenny visits the F-35 Joint Program Office (cropped).jpg Kenny in 2023 | |
| Allegiance | Canada |
| Branch | Royal Canadian Air Force[a] |
| Service years | 1989–present |
| Rank | File:Canadian RCAF (shoulder) OF-8.svg Lieutenant-General |
| Commands | 4 Wing Cold Lake 1 Canadian Air Division Royal Canadian Air Force |
| Awards | Commander of the Order of Military Merit Meritorious Service Cross Meritorious Service Medal |
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Lieutenant-General Eric Jean Kenny CMM MSC MSM CD is a senior Royal Canadian Air Force officer who served as Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force from 2022 to 2025.
Military career
[edit | edit source]Kenny joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989.[1] After training as a fighter pilot on the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet, he became commander of 4 Wing Cold Lake in 2014 and, in that capacity, was deployed as commander of the Air Task Force–Iraq in Kuwait between October 2014 and April 2015.[2][3] He went on to be Deputy Commander at 1 Canadian Air Division in Winnipeg in 2016, Director General of Air Readiness at Headquarters Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa in 2018 and commander of 1 Canadian Air Division in July 2020.[1] On 12 August 2022, he became the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force.[4][5]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Known as Air Command until 2011
References
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