Capt. Robert Attebury | Special to the Press Gazette/USA TODAY NETWORK
NAVAL AIR STATION WHITING FIELD Lt. Col. Jason N. Dale, U.S. Marine Corps, relieved Cmdr. R. David Mims, U.S. Navy, as the 57th commanding officer of the “Shooters,” Training Squadron Six (VT-6), in a unique ceremony at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in late April.
The squadron is one of three fixed-wing aircraft training squadrons under Training Air Wing Five (TRAWING FIVE).
Mims and Dale conducted their change of command in a unique airborne ceremony while squadron members, friends, and family looked on.
Three T-6B aircraft participated in a formation flight with the first flown by Mims, the second by Dale, and the third with the commodore of Training Air Wing Five (TW-5), Col. Jeffrey Pavelko, serving as the ceremony’s officiating officer.