Team Fairchild welcomes new commander

Col. Brian Newberry flies a KC-135 Stratotanker on a refueling mission over Afghanistan in 2011. The colonel took over as the commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing during a ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base Aug. 6, 2012. Newberry is a command pilot with more than 4,300 flying hours and 397 combat hours. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech. Sgt. Henry Hoegen)

Team Fairchild welcomes new commander

Published Aug. 6, 2012
By Staff Sgt. J.G. Buzanowski
92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE Wash., -- Members of Team Fairchild gathered today for the official change of command for the 92nd Air Refueling Wing.

The new commander, Col. Brian Newberry, comes to Fairchild following a yearlong deployment as the operations group commander at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyz Republic.

Colonel Newberry entered the Air Force in 1991 as a distinguished military graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. He has flown as an evaluator pilot in the C-17A Globemaster III and has flown missions in support of Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom and Allied Force, and served as the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron Commander at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in 2007.

Prior to assuming his deployment to the Transit Center, Colonel Newberry was an Air Force National Defense Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

Colonel Newberry is a command pilot with more than 4,300 flying hours and 397 combat hours in the C-17A, KC-135R/T Stratotanker, EC-135C, T-38 Talon and T-37 Tweet.