Roger E. Combs

Who is Roger E. Combs?

Roger E. Combs is a retired Major General in the Air National Guard. His last assignment was as the Director of Strategic Plans and Policy for the National Guard Bureau. In this position he was responsible to the chief, National Guard Bureau to develop, promulgate and implement policy, plans, concepts and strategy for the nearly half million citizen soldiers and airmen of the Army and Air National Guard. His duties touched and concerned war-fighting, peacetime international activities and aspects of the federal and state homeland security and civil support missions of both the National Guard Bureau and the corporate National Guard. The mission scope of the J-5 Directorate also includes representing the chief of the National Guard Bureau in Department of Defense, inter-agency, intergovernmental and non-governmental forums. Previously, General Combs was assistant Adjutant General for Air and deputy commander of Joint Forces Headquarters, Missouri. He also served as the Air National Guard assistant to commander, First Air Force, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.