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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 039-08
January 16, 2009

General Officer Assignments

            The chief of staff, Air Force announces the assignments of the following general officers:
 
            Maj. Gen. Mark R. Zamzow, deputy chief of staff, Strategic Communications, Multi-National Force-Iraq, United States Central Command, Baghdad, Iraq, to special assistant to the commander, Third Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom.
 
            Maj. Gen. David E. Clary, director, Air Component Coordination Element, Multi-National Force-Iraq; Commander Detachment 2, 9th Air Expeditionary Task Force, Air Combat Command, Baghdad, Iraq, to special assistant to the commander, Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va.
 
            Brig. Gen. Joseph Reynes, Jr., inspector general, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va., to director, Air Component Coordination Element, Multi-National Force-Iraq;Commander Detachment 2, 9th Air Expeditionary Task Force, Air Combat Command, Baghdad, Iraq.
 
            Brig. Gen. Mark A. Barrett, commander, 1st Fighter Wing, Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va., to inspector general, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va.
 
            Brig. Gen. John F. Thompson, chief of staff, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to commander, 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing and Deputy Program Executive Officer for Reconnaissance and Special Operations Forces, Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.