{{Short description|Canadian general}} {{Use Canadian English|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox military person |image=Lieutenant-General K R Pennie.jpg |name= Kenneth R. Pennie |birth_date={{Birth based on age as of date|52|2001|8|7}} |death_date= |birth_place= Winnipeg, Manitoba |death_place= |caption= Kenneth Pennie |nickname= |allegiance=Canada |service_years= 1966 - 2005 |rank=Lieutenant General |branch =Air Command{{efn|Known as '''Royal Canadian Air Force''' until 1968}} |commands=403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron<br>10 Tactical Air Group<br>Air Command |unit= |battles= |awards=Commander of the Order of Military Merit<br>Canadian Forces' Decoration |other_work= }}
Lieutenant-General '''Kenneth R. Pennie,''' CMM, CD (born c. 1949) is a retired Canadian Air Force general. He was Chief of the Air Staff from 2003 to 2005.<ref>Winnipeg's Ken Pennie to be named to top Canadian post at Norad, Canadian Press NewsWire (Toronto), 7 August 2001</ref>
==Career== Pennie joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1966 and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1970.<ref name=bio>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iafnc.org/Earlier_Year_Files/Past_Speakers/2002_Lieutenant_General_K_R__Pennie__CMM__CD_Ph__D/Speaker_Pennie.html |title=Lieutenant-General K.R. Pennie, CMM, CD Ph. D |access-date=2011-06-08 |archive-date=2012-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325035553/http://www.iafnc.org/Earlier_Year_Files/Past_Speakers/2002_Lieutenant_General_K_R__Pennie__CMM__CD_Ph__D/Speaker_Pennie.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as Commanding Officer of 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron and then became Deputy Commander of 10 Tactical Air Group in 1990, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Requirements in 1993 and Commander of 10 Tactical Air Group in 1995.<ref name=bio/> He went on to be Director Force Planning and Program Coordination at National Defence Headquarters in 1997, Director General Strategic Planning at National Defence Headquarters in 1998 and Deputy Commander of NORAD in 2001, seeing intense activity in that role during the September 11 attacks,<ref>[http://www.tactix.ca/pennie.html Ken Pennie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116164601/http://www.tactix.ca/pennie.html |date=2011-11-16 }} Tactix</ref> before becoming Chief of the Air Staff in 2003 and retiring in 2005.<ref name=bio/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=G E C Macdonald}} {{s-ttl|title=Deputy Commander of NORAD|years=2001–2003}} {{s-aft|after=E A Findley}} |- {{s-bef|before=L C Campbell}} {{s-ttl|title=Chief of the Air Staff|years=2003–2005}} {{s-aft|after=J S Lucas}} |- {{s-end}}
{{Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pennie, Ken}} Category:Canadian Forces Air Command generals Category:People associated with the September 11 attacks Category:Living people Category:Canadian military personnel from Manitoba Category:Commanders of the Order of Military Merit (Canada) Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Royal Military College of Canada alumni