SERE training squadron promotes leader Published June 30, 2015 By Senior Airman Sam Fogleman 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Lt. Col. David Rea took the reigns as the 66th Training Squadron commander from Lt. Col. Jason Chandler here June 30. Rea previously served as the director of operations for the squadron. The change of command ceremony is an official, formal and brief ceremony that is the military's way of bestowing command responsibility of a unit from one officer to another. This ceremony formalizes the change of command by the passing of the symbol of command, the squadron guidon, from the relinquishing commander to the gaining commander. During the exchange, the flag is entrusted to the squadron first sergeant, symbolically expressing the special trust and responsibility of his position as the primary representative of the unit's enlisted members and NCOs. Col. Jonathan Duncan, the 336th Training Group commander, presided over the ceremony.
