Commander of the Department of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations

The Commander of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI/CC) heads the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and derives its independent criminal investigative authority directly from the Secretary of the Air Force. OSI is also a field operating agency under the administrative guidance and oversight of the Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force.^[4]

Commander of the Office of Special Investigations
Office of Special Investigations Emblem
Incumbent Brig. Gen. Terry L. Bullard since May 2019
Style	Special Agent OSI/CC (formal address in writing)
Reports to	Secretary of the Air Force Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force
Inaugural holder	Joseph F. Carroll
Formation	6 May 1948^[1]
Website	Official website

Commanders of the Office of Special Investigations^[2][3]

Brig. Gen. Joseph F. Carroll (left) being sworn in as OSI's first Commander, as Chief of Staff of the Air Force Hoyt S. Vandenberg (center) witnesses the swearing-in, ca. 1948.

Brigadier General Terry L. Bullard is the current and 19th Commander of OSI.^[4][5]

By federal statue,^[6][7][8] OSI is a federal law enforcement agency with responsibility for conducting criminal investigations, counterintelligence, specialized investigative activities, protective service operations and integrated force protection for the Air Force and Space Force. OSI is also a combat-ready military criminal investigative organization that provides the Air Force and Space Force a wartime capability with counterintelligence support to force protection to find, fix, track and neutralize enemy threats in hostile and uncertain environments. OSI is the Air Force and Space Force's focal point for working with U.S. and foreign nation law enforcement and security services in order to provide timely and accurate threat information in all environments. The activities of OSI are conducted by a worldwide network of over 2,000 military and civilian special agents stationed at major Air Force and Space Force installations and a variety of worldwide special operating locations.^[4]

List of Commanders of the Office of Special Investigations

#	Rank	Name	Photo	Begin Date	End Date	Secretary of the Air Force served under	Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force served under
1	Lt. Gen.	Joseph F. Carroll^[1]		May 1948	1955	Stuart Symington Thomas K. Finletter Harold E. Talbott	St. Clair Streett Adlai H. Gilkeson Hugh J. Knerr
2	Brig. Gen.	Joseph E. Murray^[9]^[10]		1955	1959	Talbott Donald A. Quarles James H. Douglas Jr.	Truman H. Landon Elmer J. Rogers Jr.
3	Maj. Gen.	John Martin Breit^[11]		January 1959	June 1962	Douglas Dudley C. Sharp Eugene M. Zuckert	Joseph F. Carroll William H. Blanchard
4	Brig. Gen.	Robert F. Burnham^[12]		June 1962	June 1963	Zuckert	Blanchard
5	Maj. Gen.	John S. Samuel^[13]		June 1963	May 1964	Zuckert	Blanchard John Dale Ryan
6	Brig. Gen.	Joseph J. Cappucci^[14]		June 1964	March 1972	Zuckert Harold Brown Robert Seamans	Ryan Theodore R. Milton Joseph Harold Moore Selmon W. Wells Louis L. Wilson Jr.
7	Maj. Gen.	William A. Temple^[15]		April 1972	July 1975	Seamans John L. McLucas	Wilson Gerald W. Johnson Donald G. Nunn
8	Col.	Roy C. Tucker Jr.^[16]^[17]		August 1975	March 1977	McLucas Acting James W. Plummer Thomas C. Reed John C. Stetson	Nunn John P. Flynn
9	Col.	Forest A. Singhoff^[18]^[19]		April 1977	May 1980	Stetson Hans Mark	Flynn Howard M. Lane Howard W. Leaf
10	Brig. Gen.	Richard S. Beyea Jr.^[20]		June 1980	February 1988	Mark Verne Orr Russell A. Rourke Edward C. Aldridge Jr.	Leaf Robert W. Bazley Monroe W. Hatch Jr. Robert D. Springer Buford D. Lary
11	Brig. Gen.	Francis R. Dillon^[21]		February 1988	April 1993	Alridge Acting James F. McGovern Acting John J. Welch, Jr. Donald B. Rice Acting Michael B. Donley	Lary Bradley C. Hosmer Eugene H. Fischer
12	Brig. Gen.	Robert A. Hoffmann^[22]		April 1993	September 1996	Donley Sheila E. Widnall	Fischer Marcus A. Anderson Richard T. Swope
13	Brig. Gen.	Francis X. Taylor^[23]		September 1996	May 2001	Widnall F. Whitten Peters Acting Lawrence J. Delaney	Swope Nicholas B. Kehoe Raymond P. Huot
14	Brig. Gen.	L. Eric Patterson^[24]		May 2001	June 2005	Delaney James G. Roche Acting Peter B. Teets Acting Michael Montelongo Acting Michael L. Dominguez	Huot Steven R. Polk
15	Brig. Gen.	Dana A. Simmons^[25]		June 2005	March 2010	Dominguez Acting Pete Geren Michael Wynne Donley	Polk Ronald F. Sams Marc E. Rogers
16	Brig. Gen.	Kevin J. Jacobsen^[26]		April 2010	September 2014	Donley Acting Eric Fanning Deborah Lee James	Rogers Stephen P. Mueller Gregory A. Biscone
17	Brig. Gen.	Keith M. Givens^[27]		May 2014	May 2017	James Acting Lisa Disbrow	Biscone Anthony J. Rock
18	Col.	Kirk B. Stabler^[28]		May 2017	May 2019	Disbrow Heather Wilson	Rock Stayce D. Harris Sami D. Said
19	Brig. Gen.	Terry L. Bullard^[4]		May 2019	Present	Wilson Acting Matthew Donovan Barbara Barrett Frank Kendall III	Said

See also

• List of secretaries of the Air Force
• List of inspectors general of the Department of the Air Force
• List of Air Force judge advocates general
• List of United States federal law enforcement agencies

Military Criminal Investigative Organizations

• United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC or CID)
• United States Army Counterintelligence (USAI or CI)
• Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
• Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS)
• Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS)

References

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