Eric Kenny
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Lieutenant-General Eric Jean Kenny CMM MSC MSM CD is a senior Royal Canadian Air Force officer who served as Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force from 2022 to 2025.
Military career
Kenny joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989. After training as a fighter pilot on the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet, he became commander of 4 Wing Cold Lake in 2014 and, in that capacity, was deployed as commander of the Air Task Force–Iraq in Kuwait between October 2014 and April 2015. He went on to be Deputy Commander at 1 Canadian Air Division in Winnipeg in 2016, Director General of Air Readiness at Headquarters Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa in 2018 and commander of 1 Canadian Air Division in July 2020. On 12 August 2022, he became the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Honours and decorations
Honours and decorations include:
| Ribbon | Description | Notes |
| Commander of the Order of Military Merit | CMM | |
| Meritorious Service Cross | MSC | |
| Meritorious Service Medal | MSM | |
| General Campaign Star - Allied Forces | ||
| General Campaign Star - South-West Asia | ||
| General Service Medal - Expedition | ||
| Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal | ||
| NATO Operation Unified Protector - Libya | ||
| Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal | ||
| Canadian Forces' Decoration | CD | |
| Defense Meritorious Service Medal - USA | ||
| Meritorious Service Medal - USA |
Notes
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byAl Meinzinger | Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force August 2022 – July 2025 | Succeeded byJamie Speiser-Blanchet |