TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli plans to retire in March, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday.

Tafanelli has been adjutant general since 2011. The office's responsibilities include overseeing the Kansas Army and Air National Guard. He also directs the Kansas Division of Emergency Management, Kansas Homeland Security and has budgetary and administrative responsibilities for the Civil Air Patrol.

Tafanelli, who has been in uniform for 39 years, was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2001 to 2004. After a year of deployment in Iraq, h...