Major General Al Flowers retires today after forty-six years in the military. The longest tenured active-duty service member in the Air Force and the longest-serving active duty black American in the Defense Department’s entire sixty year history. He started out working in a warehouse, collected the bodies of KIAs in Vietnam and is now the Air Force Budget Director….for just a few more hours.
God speed, General, thank you for your service. Enjoy your retirement, you’ve earned it.
Read more about Major General Al Flowers’ career.
