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Jody Merritt

U.S. Air Force general

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ100818228 ↗
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Jody A. Merritt (born c. 1967) is a United States Air Force major general serving as the mobilization assistant to the commander of the United States Space Command. She previously served as the mobilization assistant to the commander of the Space Operations Command.

In January 2023, Merritt was nominated for promotion to major general.

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“Jody Merritt” enters the record as u.S. Air Force general. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jody, Merritt and Force can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jody Merritt” 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.