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New ALC leader takes over Wednesday

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TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., --  Maj. Gen. P. David Gillett Jr. will take command of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center during a ceremony at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Bldg. 3001 officiated by Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force Materiel Command commander.

General Gillett is taking over for Maj. Gen. Loren Reno who is being promoted to lieutenant general with an assignment as deputy chief of Staff, Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
General Gillett's previous assignment was director of Logistics, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va., where he was responsible for policy, budget and oversight of the command's maintenance, supply, contracting, transportation and munitions activities. He provided logistics direction and oversight to the more than 47,000 logistics personnel assigned to 93 ACC combat and combat logistics support units worldwide, supporting 1,200 fighter, bomber and special mission aircraft.

The general led a staff of more than 350 people and controlled a budget of $4.6 billion. In addition, he supervised three special staff agencies comprised of more than 800 people, providing command-wide contracting activities and program management, as well as Air Force's regional supply support of the radar surveillance systems dedicated to protecting the nation's borders.

General Gillett was commissioned through the Air Force ROTC in July 1976 at Texas A&M University in College Station, and entered active duty at Chanute Air Force Base, Ill., in March 1977. He was previously stationed at Tinker from June 2000 to April 2001 as the director of the Technology and Industrial Support Directorate.

General Reno achieved several notable accomplishments during his Tinker tenure. Among them, was the lease of the Tinker Aerospace Complex, and the KC-10 paint workload, in which the Federal Aviation Administration granted its first-ever repair certification for a Department of Defense facility. General Reno also pushed for continuous warfighter support and led teams that recovered three forward-deployed B-1s and a B-2 that crashed shortly after takeoff .