She is the Air National Guard assistant to the commander of Air Education and Training Command and now Maj. Gen. LaRita Aragon. Aragon, who was the first woman to reach star rank in the Oklahoma ANG, received her second star on Dec. 22 at the state capitol, reports the Shawnee News-Star.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.