LTC Austin Takes Command of 224th

Lt Col Richard Austin,assumed command of Brunswick's 240-member 224th Joint Communications Support Squadron in early September. Austin was formerly commander of the 117th Air Control Squadron in Savannah .

Lt. Col. Austin

At change of command ceremonies, Lt. Col. Austin, a 21-year veteran of the Air National Guard recognized the key role continually played by the 224th JCSS in providing superior communications capabilities for field commanders and task forces engaged in the global war on terror around the world. Georgia’s Joint Communications Support Squadron is one of only two Air Force communications units reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Austin recently returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq with the 117th Air Control Squadron. The Air National Guard Air Control squadron is the only Air National Guard unit to have had sole responsibility for the control of all air operations in the more 200,000 miles of airspace over northern and central Iraq.

Commissioned through Officer Training School in 1980, Austin served on active duty as a missile launch officer with the 44th Strategic Missile Wing at Ellworth, AB, South Dakota. Leaving active duty in 1985, he joined the Tennessee Air National Guard, and later joined the 117th Air Control Squadron of the Georgia Air National Guard in 1991. In 2002, Austin was selected as unit commander.

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