Major General Craig D. Wills

Commander, 19th Air Force U.S. Air Force

Maj. Gen. Craig D. Wills is the Commander, 19th Air Force, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. The 19th Air Force is composed of more than 36,000 total force personnel and 1,608 aircraft assigned to 17 Total Force wings located across the U.S. He is responsible for and oversees more than 45 percent of the Air Force’s annual flying hour program that trains more than 32,000 U.S. and allied aircrew annually flying 29 different types of aircraft. The 19th Air Force monitors production and oversees top level instruction and flying operations through the multi-domain Flying Training Operations Center to monitor operations, manning, contracts, logistics and maintenance trends. The training encompasses entry-level undergraduate, rotary wing and remotely piloted aircraft pilots, combat systems officers, advanced 4th and 5th generation fighter pilots, air mobility and special operations combat crew training which ultimately provides fully qualified aircrew personnel to the warfighting commands.

Maj. Gen. Wills was commissioned in 1990 upon completion of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Arizona. He is a Command Pilot with more than 2,500 hours of flying time, primarily in the F-15C and F-15E.

Prior to his current position, Maj. Gen. Wills served as the Deputy Chief, Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq, in Baghdad. He has held command positions at squadron, group and wing levels. He also served on the Pacific Air Forces, Seventh Air Force and U.S. Forces Korea staffs. He previously commanded the 39th Air Base Wing at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey; the 47th Operations Group at Laughlin AFB, Texas; and the 493rd Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, England. He has been a Fellow at Harvard University.