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Christopher Ireland

U.S. Air Force general

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ108435308 ↗
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Christopher J. Ireland is a United States Air Force brigadier general who serves as the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa. He is to retire on October 1, 2021.

Prior to that, he was the Deputy Commander of the Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Region.

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