Change-of-command ceremony at the air base Sunday

VIENNA

Air Force Col. Stephen “Fritz” Linsenmeyer will assume charge of the 910th Airlift Wing in a change-of-command ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station.

Linsenmeyer takes over the 910th from Col. Udo Karl McGregor, who assumed command of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on March 27. Linsenmeyer was promoted to colonel Sept. 10, 2005.

McGregor, who took command of the 910th on July 15, 2007, was born in Germany, grew up in Savannah, Ga., and enlisted in the Air Force in 1976 as a helicopter mechanic.

Linsenmeyer’s most recent assignment was as commander of the 916th Air Refueling Wing, an Air Force Reserve unit at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.

The 910th’s new commander was commissioned in 1981 through Officer Training School. His first operational flying assignment was as a B-52 pilot. He also has flown the KC-10 and worked for the Air Force Reserve at the Pentagon.

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