910th Airlift Wing to get new leader

Staff report

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.

He earned his commission in 1986 from Officer Training School and as a command pilot has flown more than 11,200 hours in a variety of aircraft. He was promoted to colonel March 2, 2005.

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.

After 16 years on active duty, Linsenmeyer joined the Air Force Reserve, where he has served in a variety of positions, including chief of plans, operations officer and squadron commander.

He is a command pilot with more than 4,100 military flying hours and is an Air Reserve technician, a full-time federal civil service employee serving in a selected position within a military unit.

A 1981 graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Linsenmeyer received a master’s degree in personnel administration in 1990 from Golden Gate University, California.

In 1994, he was a distinguished graduate of the Air Command and Staff College, and in 2004 received a master of strategic studies degree from the Air War College, both at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

The 910th has 1,400 Air Force reservists and 12 C-130H Hercules cargo planes, which includes three groups comprised of two flying squadrons, the only aerial spray mission in the Department of Defense, and 12 support units. The base also has 400 Air Reserve Technician and civil service employees.