# Steven Nordhaus **Status: stub — expand.** U.S. Air Force general; **30th Chief of the [[National Guard Bureau]]**, assuming responsibility October 15, 2024. As Chief he is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the senior uniformed adviser on [[National Guard]] matters, though the post carries no operational command over state Guard forces. A career fighter pilot who previously commanded First Air Force and served as Air Forces Northern commander under [[United States Northern Command]] — the homeland-defense assignment that makes him unusually close to the domestic-deployment mission he now advises on. ## See also - [[National Guard Federalization Flow]] · [[National Guard]] · [[Posse Comitatus Act]] · [[Insurrection Act]]