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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 276-07
March 13, 2007

General Officer Assignments

               The Air Force chief of staff announces the assignments of the following general officers:
 
               Maj. Gen. Chris T. Anzalone, deputy, test and assessment, Missile Defense Agency, Arlington, Va., to deputy, test and deputy, integration, logistics and fielding, Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Ala. 
 
               Brig. Gen. Blair E. Hansen, vice commander, Ninth Air Force, Air Combat Command; and deputy commander, U.S. Central Command Air Forces, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., to director, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, deputy chief of staff, intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
 
               Maj. Gen. William L. Holland, deputy combined forces air component commander, U.S. Central Command; deputy commander, Air Force Forces; and vice commander, Ninth Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force, Air Combat Command, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar to vice commander, Ninth Air Force, Air Combat Command; and deputy commander, U.S. Central Command Air Forces, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.
 
               Brig. Gen. Maurice H. Forsyth, deputy director, global operations, J-39, Joint Staff, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., to deputy combined forces air component commander, U.S. Central Command; deputy commander, Air Force Forces; and vice commander, Ninth Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force, Air Combat Command, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
 
               Brig. Gen. James M. Kowalski, commander, 552nd Air Control Wing, Air Combat Command, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., to deputy director, global operations, J-39, Joint Staff, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
 
                 Brig. Gen. Jonathan D. George, commander, 55th Wing, Air Combat Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., to deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, Pol-Mil, U.S. Central Command, Kabul, Afghanistan.
 
            Brig. Gen. (select) Francis L. Hendricks, study director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., to vice commander, Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Dallas, Texas.