Lori Robinson Lori J . Robinson is a United States Air Force Lieutenant General who currently serves as the Vice Commander , Air Combat Command , Langley Air Force Base , Va . She assists the Commander in organizing , training , equipping and maintaining combat - ready forces for rapid deployment and employment while ensuring strategic air defense forces are ready to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime defense . ACC operates more than 1 , 300 aircraft , 22 wings , 14 bases , and more than 500 organizations operating at more than 50 locations worldwide with 83 , 838 active - duty and civilian personnel . Career . General Robinson entered the Air Force in 1982 through the ROTC program at the University of New Hampshire . She has served in a variety of positions as an Air Battle Manager , including instructor and Commander of the Command and Control Operations Division at the United States Air Force Weapons School , as well as Chief of Tactics in the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron . She has held staff assignments as command briefer at Headquarters Pacific Air Forces , Deputy Chief of Staff and executive assistant to the Director at the Defense Information Systems Agency , and executive officer to the Commander of Air Combat Command . General Robinson has commanded an operations group , a training wing , and an air control wing . She has also deployed as Vice Commander of the 405th Air Expeditionary Wing , leading more than 2 , 000 Airmen flying B - 1 Lancer , KC - 135 Stratotanker and E - 3 Sentry aircraft in operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom . General Robinson was an Air Force Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington , D . C . , and has served at the Pentagon as Director of the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Executive Action Group . She has also been Deputy Director for Force Application and Support , Directorate of Force Structure , Resources and Assessment , Joint Staff , the Pentagon , Washington , D . C . Following this General Robinson was Director , Legislative Liaison , Office of the Secretary of the Air Force , the Pentagon , Washington , D . C and prior to assuming her current position General Robinson was the Deputy Commander , U . S . Air Forces Central Command ; Deputy , Combined Force Air Component Commander , U . S . Central Command , Southwest Asia . On September 21 , 2007 General Robinson made history when she became the first Air Battle Manager and first woman 552nd ACW commander to be frocked to brigadier general while stationed at Tinker AFB , Oklahoma . Family & personal . Robinson is married to retired USAF Major General David A . Robinson . Robinson ' s daughter , United States Air Force Reserve ( USAFR ) Second Lieutenant Taryn Ashley ( b . February 1 , 1983 ) was critically injured , and her civilian flight instructor was killed , when their plane impacted terrain on September 21 , 2005 . Taryn later succumbed to her injuries and died on January 10 , 2006 . Lt . Robinson was enrolled in a government undergraduate pilot training ( UPT ) introductory flight program , and this was her second flight . Taryn ' s flight instructor , James L . Weaver , age 64 , was flying the Diamond Aircraft Industries DA20 - C1 , single - engine airplane , N63PA , when it clipped two high - tension power cables while simulating engine failure near Pleasanton , Texas . Lt . Robinson was an Air Force Academy Graduate ( Class of 2005 ) , as was Mr . Weaver ( Class of 1963 ) .