The Adjutant General is required to have a minimum of fifteen years of commissioned service in the Armed Forces of the United States and have obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel or Commander.

The Adjutant General can not be appointed or continue to serve once they have reached the age of sixty-four.

This organization was the forerunner to the Connecticut Military Department in which its head is the Adjutant General.

In 1796, the Connecticut Acts & Laws were further update in accordance with national law in which the duties of the Adjutant General were defined to be to distribute all orders from the Commander-in-Chief of the state to the several Corps and to attend all public reviews where the Commander-in-Chief of the state will review the militia.

[5] In 1939, the Military Department was established in order to consolidate all armed forces of the state under the Adjutant General.