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Jeffrey B. Cashman

brigadier general

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ21005290
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Jeffrey B. Cashman is a brigadier general in the Air National Guard of the United States.

Career

Cashman graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1989 and began training at Reese Air Force Base and Castle Air Force Base. In 1991, he was assigned as a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress with the 9th Bomb Squadron and the 20th Bomb Squadron. The following year, he became a B-52 pilot and Cessna T-37 Tweet instructor pilot at K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base. Cashman was later a T-37 instructor pilot, evaluation pilot and flight commander with the 8th Flying Training Squadron.

After being assigned to the 435th Fighter Training Squadron, Cashman transferred to the Vermont Air National Guard in 1999 and was a member of the 148th Fighter Squadron of the Arizona Air National Guard until 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he was a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot with the 134th Fighter Squadron. He was then assigned to the National Guard Bureau until 2008 and the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense until 2010.

After returning to the National Guard Bureau, Cashman was stationed at Joint Base Andrews from 2011 to 2012. Cashman then became executive assistant to the chief of the National Guard Bureau.

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This entry incorporates text from Jeffrey B. Cashman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.