United States Department of the Air Force

The Department of the Air Force (German " Air Force Office " ) was incorporated on September 17, 1947 under the National Security Act again. It was a spin-off of the U.S. Army Air Forces (formerly the U.S. Army Air Corps ) out of the Department of the Army.

Mission and responsibility

The Department of the Air Force is responsible for all administrative and technical aspects of the newly founded in the same year U.S. Air Force. Until 1949 it formed together with the two other departments of the armed forces, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy the administrative infrastructure of the War Department until it merged into the newly founded and until existing today Department of Defense ( Defense).

Unlike the Departments of the Army and Navy ( until 1947 ) it had never been a stand-alone cabinet rank.

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

The military- operational chain of command of the Air Force is the Chief of Staff of the Air Force before representing in personal union, the U.S. Air Force as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (United Chiefs of Staff ) and represented.

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The Office of the Secretary of the Air Force is vested since June 21, 2013 by Eric Fanning.