Retired Lt. Gen. Kenneth L. Tallman, a former Air Force Academy Superintendent, died Monday in his Tallahassee, Fla., home at 80 years old. Tallman, who, in 1946, graduated from West Point and earned pilot wings at Stewart Field, N.Y., was the superintendent at the Colorado Springs, Colo., academy from 1977 to 1981. He was a training officer at the academy when the school was based at the former Lowry Air Force Base, near Denver. During his Air Force career, Tallman served in various fighter unit and personnel assignments, becoming Air Force deputy chief of staff for personnel in 1975. He retired from the Air Force in 1981, later serving as president of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Former AFCENT Commander Reflects on Lessons of Epic Fury
Sept. 13, 2026
Operation Epic Fury marked the U.S. military's largest air campaign in a generation, with strikes on 13,000 targets in Iran before the first in a series of shaky ceasefires began in April. Now, even as hostilities continue to flare up, Lt. Gen. Derek C. France sees several clear lessons that…
