DENVER -- In a sign of changing sentiments within senior Air Force leadership, each of the service's generals scheduled for media availabilities at the Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium canceled.

Top officials routinely meet with reporters in roundtable interviews at industry conferences, and many were scheduled here this week. Commanders for Air Forces Europe and Africa, Pacific Air Forces and Air Combat Command, among others, backed out either a couple days or just hours before.

Space Force officials, however, continued to participate in the roundtable interviews with reporters, including Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman and heads of the service’s commands.

There was no directive from top officials to cancel the appearances, a defense official familiar with the subject told Inside Defense. Each commander’s team individually canceled their appearances with media, the official said.

“No guidance came down that said, ‘stop,’” the official said.

Air Force Public Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Generals are likely canceling these media availabilities as a “direct result,” former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Inside Defense, of the Trump administration’s firing of top officers and a purge of content relating to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

“This administration has created a climate of fear in the military and civilian workforce in DOD that is unprecedented and hugely debilitating,” Kendall said. “People are afraid to say anything publicly that might be remotely interpreted as at odds with the Trump administration or Secretary Hegseth.”

Kendall has been an outspoken critic of the administration since Trump took office, recently penning an op-ed in The New York Times condemning the removal of the judge advocates general of the services.

While generals are canceling media-only engagements, AFA Director of Communications Amy Hudson told Inside Defense “there has been no impact to AFA’s programming.”

“We still have more than 130 speakers on our agenda in 36 sessions,” she said.

Additional reporting by Vanessa Montalbano