# Chance Saltzman General and second Chief of Space Operations of the [[U.S. Space Force]], serving from 2022. Departed the post in 2026, using his farewell remarks to warn that a war in space would leave no one outside the war zone and to press for a realistic rather than promotional approach to the service's force design. > [!note] Stub — fill out > Career history, his "competitive endurance" force-design framing, and his successor.