United States Marine Corps General Joseph F. Dunford

United States Marine Corps General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commanding general of the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan, speaks to members of the U.S. Air Force following a USAF’s 66th birthday ceremony held at ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, Sept. 18, 2013. The annual tradition celebrates the day the USAF become a separate military service. The Air Corps became a subordinate element of the Army Air Forces on June 20, 1941. It existed as a branch of the Army similar to the infantry, quartermaster or artillery until reorganization provisions of the National Security Act of 1947. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Richard Andrade, International Security Assistance Force HQ Public Affairs)