included training on the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit and flying the Northrop T-38 Talon. From June 2002 through November 2004, Goodwin was a flight commander with the 325th Bomb Squadron, flying T-38s and acting as mission commander on B-2 sorties. November 2004 – December 2005 saw then-Major Goodwin teaching B-2 pilots and still flying T-38s with the 509th Operations Support Squadron (509 OSS); through July 2006 she added to her plate: Chief of Combat Plans for the 509th Bomb Wing. , Goodwin was rated as a command pilot, having over 2900 flight hours in the T-37, T-1, C-130, EC-130, B-2, T-38, and B-52. Her B-2 aviator call sign is "Duchess". Command Major Goodwin returned to the Pentagon in July 2006 to work under the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General T. Michael Moseley. A year later, she was hand-picked to transfer to Camp H. M. Smith and work as the deputy director of the United States Pacific Command's Commander's Action Group under Admiral Timothy J. Keating. Come August 2009, Lieutenant Colonel Goodwin returned to Whiteman as the director of operations for the 393rd Bomb Squadron while evaluating B-2 pilots. After eleven months, she was elevated to commander of the 509 OSS. From June 2011June 2012, Goodwin served as the executive officer to the Air Combat Command commander, General Gilmary M. Hostage III, after which she was a Center for Strategic and International Studies fellow from June 2012June 2013. Colonel Goodwin was then reassigned to Whiteman as the vice commander of the 509th Bomb Wing from June 2013August 2014, before becoming commander of the 2nd Bomb Wing (2 BW) at Barksdale Air Force Base for 22 months. While heading the 2 BW as its first female commander, Goodwin oversaw the first reintroduction of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress to combat in ten years, as well as helped plan Operation Odyssey Dawn's first night of shock and awe operations. After Leaving Louisiana in May 2016, Goodwin was the senior military assistant to Secretaries of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Lisa Disbrow. Academy commandant The Air Force announced on 21 March 2017 that Colonel Goodwin was to be the next commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy (also commander of the 34th Training Wing). Michael L. Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation lauded the installation of an openly-homosexual leader at the academy. In contrast, Kayla Moore