Change of Command
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.--Lt. Col. A. Kevin Yates (right) assumes command of the 561st Network Operations Squadron in a ceremony June 23 at the Peterson Museum Hangar. Col. Donald Locke Jr. (left), 690th Network Support Group commander, passes the squadron’s guidon to Colonel Yates. Prior to his assignment as 561st NOS commander, Colonel Yates served as U.S. Strategic Command Chief of Information Technology, U.S. Strategic Command, Neb. (Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Jonathan Wong)