title: David M. Gaedecke
text: # David M. Gaedecke
  
  David M. Gaedecke is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. He last served as the vice commander of the Sixteenth Air Force.
  
  ## Air Force career
  
  David M. Gaedecke commissioned in the US Air Force at the Air Force Officer Training School after he graduated with a degree in English from James Madison University. He attended the Undergraduate Weapons Controller Court at Tyndall AFB and became an air battle manager. He was first assigned as a weapons controller at the 621st Air Control Squadron at Osan AB in the Republic of Korea. He then was a member of the 726th Air Control Squadron, first at Shaw AFB and then at Mountain Home AFB. In 1999, he moved to the 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron at Tinker AFB, and began flying on the E-3 AWACS. He later flew on the NATO E-3 AWACS, and then flew on the E-8 JSTARS at Robins AFB. He was the director of operations, and later the commander, of the 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron. He attended the Joint Advanced Warfighting School at the National Defense University, and served as the directory of the Combat Operations Division at the 609th Air Operations Center at Al Udeid AB in Qatar. He then served as the vice commander of the 505th Command and Control Wing at Hurlburt Field, and then became the commander of the 552nd Air Control Wing in 2015. In 2017, he became the Director of Cyberspace Operations and Warfighter Integration at The Pentagon, and later the director of Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority. In July 2020, he became the Vice Commander of the Sixteenth Air Force.
  
  ## Dates of promotion
  
  | Rank | Date |
  | - | - |
  | Major general | May 7, 2021 |
  | Brigadier general | Nov. 17, 2017 |
  | Colonel | Sept. 1, 2011 |
  | Lieutenant colonel | Sept. 1, 2007 |
  | Major | Mar. 1, 2004 |
  | Captain | Nov. 19, 1997 |
  | First lieutenant | Nov. 19, 1995 |
  | Second lieutenant | Nov. 19, 1993 |
  