Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach was confirmed as the next Air Force chief of staff, the last hurdle before he takes the service’s top spot from Gen. David Allvin. Allvin unexpectedly left the position in August, when he announced his retirement after roughly two years into the typically four-year job.

Wilsbach’s path to the service’s top position was unconventional, as several of President Donald Trump’s most recent picks for senior generals have been. A career fighter pilot, Wilsbach announced earlier this year that he would be retiring as the commanding general of Air Combat Command, the Air Force’s largest command, but canceled his planned retirement to take the job when Allvin announced that he was retiring.

In his Oct.9 hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Wilsba

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