On 16 May 2016, he assumed duties as Assistant Adjutant General, with subsequent promotion to brigadier general. In June 2019, the Senate Armed Services Committee nominated Lapthe Flora to be Major General. In June 2020, he assumed command of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa. Flora is Director of Quality Assurance, Night Vision & Communications Solutions (NVCS) with Exelis Inc. in Roanoke, Va., and holds six patent awards related to the AN/PVS-14 and AN/AVS-9 night goggles. He was awarded the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. He is married to his wife Thuy and they have a daughter named Christine. His adopted father John Flora graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1937, was a retired realtor, had been a battalion staff officer with the 116th Infantry Regiment when it landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. His adopted parents John and Audrey Flora have died.