Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Doherty was the Director of Plans, Programs, Requirements, and Analysis, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. He is responsible for planning and programming $60 billion annually for a force of more than 146,000 personnel and 2,800 aircraft, supporting 10 unified commands and North American Aerospace Defense Command. He is also responsible for functions relating to the Combat Air Forces’ weapons systems acquisition, modernization, sustainment, and test involving more than 140 programs and the associated warfighting analysis and concepts at the operational level of war. Additionally, he directs a staff of 25 divisions and more than 700 personnel. Maj. Gen. Doherty entered the Air Force in 1988 through the Air Force ROTC program at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. He initially served as a B-52 navigator and was selected to attend undergraduate pilot training and transitioned to become an F-15E pilot. He has served in four combat flying deployments and two remote staff, command and control tours. Maj. Gen. Doherty has commanded a formal training unit fighter squadron, a combat ready fighter wing, a maintenance and logistics technical training wing, and led force development as the Director of Assignments and entrusted to care for Airmen and their families as the Director of Air Force Services, Headquarters Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. Prior to his current assignment, Maj. Gen. Doherty was Commander, 19th Air Force, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, in charge of the Air Force’s flying training enterprise covering half of the Air Force’s flying hours, training more than 32,000 Airmen a year. Maj. Gen. Doherty is a command pilot with more than 4000 flying hours, including 339 combat hours.