Tuesday, July 16, 2013

505th CCW gets new leader

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- Col. Daniel J. Orcutt, former Strategy Division chief of the 609th Air Operations Center in Southwest Asia, received the guidon and command of the 505th Command and Control Wing during a change of command ceremony July 9. He took over from Col. Mustafa Koprucu. Maj. Gen. Jeffery Lofgren, the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center commander, presided over the ceremony. The 505th CCW is the Air Force's only wing dedicated to operational-level command and control testing, training and tactics development. The Wing's units are distributed across 14 locations in 12 states. The wing is headquartered at Hurlburt. (Source: 1st SOW, 07/16/13)