Brig. Gen. Michelle L. Hayworth is the Vice Commander, Twenty-fourth Air Force; Vice Commander, Air Forces Cyber, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. She is responsible to the commander for the Air Force’s component Numbered Air Force providing Air Force component and combatant commanders with trained and ready cyber forces which plan and conduct cyberspace operations.
Twenty-fourth Air Force and AFCYBER personnel build, operate, secure, defend and extend the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense global network. Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber personnel perform operational planning as part of coordinated efforts to support Air Force component and combatant commanders and, upon the approval of the President and/or the Secretary of Defense, the execution of offensive cyberspace operations. The general assists the commander in directing the activities of two cyberspace wings and the 624th Operations Center, all headquartered at JBSA-Lackland, Texas.
General Hayworth was commissioned through Officer Training School. She has held assignments on the joint staff, wing, major command, and field operating agency level in Pacific Air Forces, U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa, Air Combat Command and Air Force Space Command.
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Air Force Achievement Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal