WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Lt. Gen. Terry L. Gabreski, the highest-ranking woman in the Air Force, will retire from the service effective Nov. 20, the Air Force announced on Friday, Sept. 18.

Gabreski, 57, is vice commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, which runs a worldwide logistics system and manages a broad array of aircraft and weapons programs for the Air Force, with responsibility for how the systems are conceived, tested, acquired and modernized. The AFMC has its headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

She has been in the Air Force 35 years, including serving as the AFMC’s vice commander since August 2005. Her immediate prior assignment was as commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.

Gabreski directed logistics efforts for NATO’s air war over Serbia in 1999. Her previous Air Force assignments include serving as director of aircraft maintenance units, supervisor or commander of maintenance squadrons and a logistics group, and serving at the Air Staff, Secretary of the Air Force and Joint Staff levels.

The Air Force is to announce her successor later. No date has been determined for her retirement ceremony.