Brigadier General RYAN P. KEENEY

Brigadier General Ryan P. Keeney is Deputy Commander, Seventh Air Force, Air Forces Korea, and Chief of Staff, Air Component Command, Osan Air Base, South Korea. The Seventh Air Force mission is to organize, train, and equip warfighting forces supporting the air component command assigned to the combined forces command and perform missions that support United Nations Command armistice maintenance.

General Keeney commissioned in 1997 with academic and military distinction from the United States Air Force Academy. He has served in fighter, test, and RPA units and has commanded at the squadron and operations group level as well as serving in a variety of staff assignments; including Deputy Director for Operations and Communications, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command, the speechwriter to the Acting Secretary and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, DARPA Intern, and Air Force Fellow.

General Keeney is a command pilot whose aviation career includes more than 2,600 flying hours and over 450 hours of combat experience in the F-15C, MQ-1B, and MQ-9. Prior to his current position, Gen Keeney was the Commander, 49^th Wing, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.

1. September 1997-October 1998, Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training student, 89th and 90th Flying Training Squadrons, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas
2. October 1998-January 1999, AT-38B IFF student, 88th Fighter Training Squadron, Sheppard AFB, Texas
3. January 1999-August 1999, F-15C FTU student, 2nd Fighter Squadron, Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
4. September 1999-July 2002, F-15C Instructor Pilot, 19th Fighter Squadron, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska
5. July 2002-September 2002, Student, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
6. September 2002-July 2004, F-15C Flight Evaluator and Flight Commander, 71st Fighter Squadron, Langley AFB, Va.
7. July 2004-December 2004, F-15C Weapons Instructor Course student, Nellis AFB, Nev.
8. December 2004-January 2007, F-15C Weapons Officer and Instructor Pilot, 58th Fighter Squadron, Eglin AFB, Fla.
9. January 2007-July 2009, Chief of F-15 Programs and Operational Test and Evaluation Instructor Pilot, 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Eglin AFB, Fla. (July 2007 – October 2007 – Service Chief’s Intern, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Va.)
10. July 2009-July 2010, Air Force Fellow/McConn Public Policy Intern, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
11. July 2010-July 2014, Chief speechwriter to the Undersecretary of the Air Force, previously Chief speechwriter to the acting Secretary of the Air Force and Speechwriter to the Vice Chief of Staff, SecAF/CSAF Executive Action Group, Pentagon, Va.
12. July 2014-June 2015, Commander, 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, Creech AFB, Nev.
13. July 2015-June 2016, Student, National War College, National Defense University, Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C.
14. July 2016-July 2018, Commander, 732d Operations Group, Creech AFB, Nev.
15. July 2018-August 2019, Chief of Staff, Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq, U.S. Embassy, Baghdad
16. August 2019-May 2020, Deputy Director, Operations and Communications, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas
17. May 2020-June 2022, Commander, 49th Wing, Holloman AFB, NM
18. June 2022-Present, Deputy Commander, 7th Air Force, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea