Lt. Col. Eric J. Kolb took command of the National Reconnaissance Office Space Launch Vandenberg Squadron during a ceremony at Building 8310 at 10 a.m. June 2.
Colonel Kolb replaces Lt. Col. Eric A. Krystkowiak, who will be attending the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, District of Columbia.
Colonel Kolb’s past assignments include a tour as a cruise missile project engineer at Philips Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. In March 1999, he served as a tactical space systems project manager at Los Angeles Air Force Base’s Space and Missile Systems Center in California. Remaining at Los Angeles Air Force Base, from 2001 to 2004, Colonel Kolb served as both test chief and chief of Global Positioning System IIF Satellite Integration. From June 2004 to June 2006, he was reassigned to the Air Force Communications Support Facility, Las Cruces, N.M., as the flight commander of processing operations before becoming the facility’s director of engineering.
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