The Air Force has picked 514 officers for a variety of squadron command posts in 2016, the Air Force Personnel Center said Tuesday.
The officers – who range in rank from captains to lieutenant colonels – will command logistics, support, materiel leader, air base, training, recruiting, test or medical squadrons, AFPC said.
Wing hiring officials, major command functional managers and AFPC assignment teams matched officers from a list of potential candidates – which was released in September – to projected command positions.
The assignment teams will have to coordinate with the units that are losing and gaining the new squadron commanders to decide what date the officers will report to their new assignments.
Officials chose 17 captains, 153 majors and major-selects, and 344 lieutenant colonels and lieutenant colonel-selects.
The development teams to choose squadron commander candidates began considering officers in May. They ended up with a list of more than 980 candidates from 29 career fields, the Air Force announced in October.
The more than roughly 466 officers who weren't selected for command will remain on the list until next year's squadron commanders are chosen.
Download the list of selectees here.
The list of selectees is as follows:
Stephen Losey is the air warfare reporter for Defense News. He previously covered leadership and personnel issues at Air Force Times, and the Pentagon, special operations and air warfare at Military.com. He has traveled to the Middle East to cover U.S. Air Force operations.
