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AMC announces senior officer retirements, assignments

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. --   Officials at Air Mobility Command have announced the following senior officer retirements and assignments:

Retirements:

Col. Craig H. Hollenbeck, deputy chief, Aerospace Medicine and Readiness Division, and Senior Biomedical Sciences Corps Advisor, Office of the Surgeon General, Headquarters AMC, will retire, effective January.

Col. Thomas L. Alston, deputy chief, Transportation Programs Division, Directorate of Logistics, Headquarters AMC, will retire, effective August.

Assignments:

Lt. Col. Tonja M. Brickhouse, deputy commander, 6th Mission Support Group, MacDill AFB, Fla., will replace Colonel Alston, effective June. Colonel Brickhouse has been selected for promotion.

Lt. Col. Steven J. Arquiette, student, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., will become Special Assistant to the Commander, 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord AFB, Wash., effective July. Colonel Arquiette has been selected for promotion

Col. John E. Ball, commander, 436th Operations Group, Dover AFB, Del., will become Air War College instructor, Maxwell AFB, effective July.

Col. Leonard G. Heavner, chief, Program Integration Division, Directorate of Operational Capability Requirements, Headquarters Air Force, Pentagon, will replace Colonel Ball, effective July.

Lt. Col. Jerry P. Martinez, Air Force Fellow, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellows Program, Wilmington, Del., will become deputy commander, 436th Operations Group, Dover AFB, effective June. He will replace Col. Jeffrey J. Johnson. Colonel Martinez has been selected for promotion.

Col. Stephen J. Gensheimer, deputy commander, 22nd Operations Group, McConnell AFB, Kan., will become chief, Global Mobility and Special Operations Division, Directorate of Operational Capability Requirements, Headquarters Air Force, Pentagon, effective June.

Col. Steven W. Bernard, director of staff to Combined Forces Air Component Commander, Southwest Asia, will replace Colonel Gensheimer, effective June.

Col. Peter W. Gray, deputy commander, 615th Air Mobility Operations Group, Travis AFB, Calif., will become professor of aerospace studies, AFROTC Detachment 520, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., effective July.

Col. Stephen L. Burgess, strategic policy planner, Directorate of Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, Pentagon, will replace Colonel Gray, effective June.

Col. James S. Chesnut, commander, 305th Operations Group, McGuire AFB, N.J., will become vice commander, 15th Airlift Wing, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, effective June.

Col. Jonathan D. VanGuilder, deputy commander, 305th Operations Group, McGuire AFB, will replace Colonel Chesnut, effective July.

Lt. Col. Anthony A. Foti, commander, 6th Civil Engineering Squadron, MacDill AFB, will become commander, 99th Civil Engineering Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nev., effective June. Colonel Foti has been selected for promotion.

Col. Michael L. Sevier, vice commander, 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis AFB, will become inspector general, Headquarters 12th Air Force, Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., effective July.

Col. Scott M. Hanson, U.S. Transportation Command liaison to U.S. Southern Command, Miami, Fla., will replace Colonel Sevier, effective July.

Col. Gail E. Wojtowicz, commander, 715th Air Mobility Operations Group, Hickam AFB, will become chief, Long Range Plans Division, Directorate of Strategic Planning, Headquarters Air Force, Pentagon, effective July.

Col. Alan L. Hunt, Jr., USTRANSCOM liaison to U.S. Central Command, MacDill AFB will replace Colonel Wojtowicz, effective July.

Lt. Col. Michael W. Hutchison, chief, Mission Support Branch, Directorate of Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters AMC, will become chief, Operations Division, Directorate of Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters AMC, effective June. Colonel Hutchison has been selected for promotion.

Col. Thomas J. Stark, chief, Planning and Scheduling Division, Office of the Inspector General, Headquarters AMC, will become deputy director for acquisition, Air Force Intelligence Agency, Kirtland AFB, N.M., effective August.

Col. David J. Johnson, commander, 733rd Air Mobility Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, will replace Colonel Stark, effective July.

Col. Jeffrey A. Worthing, chief, Inspections Division, Office of the Inspector General, Headquarters AMC, will replace Colonel Johnson, effective June.

Col. Steven B. King, deputy commander, 317th Airlift Group, Dyess AFB, Texas, will become chief, Policy and Process Division, Office of the Inspector General, Headquarters AMC, effective May.

Lt. Col. Alvin M. Lowry, Jr., chief, Requirements Branch, Headquarters, USTRANSCOM, Scott AFB, will replace Colonel King, effective June. Colonel Lowry has been selected for promotion.

Col. Daniel P. Lentz, commander, 725th Air Mobility Squadron, Rota AB, Spain, will become professor of aerospace science, AFROTC Detachment 875, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va., effective July.

Lt. Col. James P. Savoy, commander, 97th Services Squadron, Altus AFB, Okla., will replace Colonel Lentz, effective July. Colonel Savoy has been selected for promotion.

Col. Steven E. Wayne, vice commander, 319th Air Refueling Wing, Grand Forks AFB, N.D., will become commander, Headquarters AFROTC, Maxwell AFB, effective June.

Lt. Col. Joel S. Reese, student, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, will replace Colonel Wayne, effective July. Colonel Reese has been selected for promotion.

Lt. Col. Henry P. Sanders, student, Air War College, will become chief, C-130J Program Integration Office, 43rd Operations Group, Pope AFB, N.C., effective June. Colonel Sanders has been selected for promotion.

Lt. Col. John J. Gomez, executive officer, Directorate of Program Analysis and Financial Management, Headquarters USTRANSCOM, Scott AFB IL, will become chief, Commander's Action Group, Headquarters AMC, effective May. Colonel Gomez has been selected for promotion.

Lt. Col. Forrest C. Cunningham, commander's representative to the air logistics center, Air Force Research Lab, Robins AFB, Ga., will replace Colonel Hollenbeck, effective September. Colonel Cunningham has been selected for promotion.

Col. Michael W. Restey, commander, 89th Surgical Operations Squadron, Andrews AFB, Md., will become commander, 354th Medical Group, Eielson AFB, Alaska, effective July.

Col. Dianne Y. Harris, Ophthalmology Element chief, 60th Surgical Operations Squadron, Travis AFB, will replace Colonel Restey, effective June.