New Commander For The 189th
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The 189th Airlift Wing of the Arkansas Air National Guard has a new commander. In a ceremony Saturday at Little Rock Air Force Base, members of the air guard welcomed Colonel Travis D- Balch as the airlift wing`s new commander. He
takes the place of Colonel Riley P- Porter.
The ceremony was also an occasion for the air guard to honor more than 100 members who have been deployed since the September Eleventh, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Porter, a former mayor of West Helena, returned a few weeks ago
from a four-month assignment in Iraq. During his time there, he supervised the construction of an air base in Balad and commanded operations at Tallil Air Base.
