Wing/Air Division Commanders at Altus Air Force Base Altus Army Air Field Advanced Flying School Colonel John M. Price 2 December 1942 Base Closed 13 December 45 to 15 December 52 Altus Air Force Base Tactical Air Command 63d Troop Carrier Wing (later Airlift) Colonel Glenn M. Jones 7 January 1953 Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth L. Johnson 20 June 1953 Strategic Air Command 96th Bombardment Wing, Medium Vacant 18 November 1953 *Colonel Dearl L. Beard 15 March 1954 *Colonel Audrin R. Walker 21 April 1954 *Colonel C.F. McKenna III 2 September 1957 *Colonel John S. Samuel 2 December 1957 *Colonel Frederick R. Ramputi 15 July 1961 *Colonel Kenneth S. Steele 1 August 1961 *Colonel William B. Kyes 3 March 1963 *Colonel Merrill N. Moore January 1965 Colonel Harold A. Radetsky 1 August 1965 Colonel Earl S. Kimball 5 July 1966 Colonel Raymond J. Bryan 8 July 1966 Colonel Raymond R. Dietch 11 July 1966 Colonel Joseph J. Young 29 July 1967 443d Military Airlift Wing, Training Colonel Weldon D. Newquist 8 April 1969 Colonel George Wentsch 18 September 1970 Brigadier General Eugene B. Sterling 9 June 1972 Brigadier General Tedd L. Bishop 15 May 1973 Colonel Harry F. Smith, Jr 14 March 1975 Colonel Maurice C. Padden 9 June 1978 Colonel Phillip S. Prince 30 April 1980 Colonel Jimmie L. Jay 19 August 1981 Colonel Richard C. Milnes II 3 January 1983 Colonel John E. Haseltine 21 January 1985 Colonel Edward S. Brannum 25 March 1988 Colonel Walter S. Hogle, Jr 11 June 1990 Air Mobility Command 97th Air Mobility Wing (1 October 1992 - ) Brigadier General Edward F. Grillo, Jr 10 November 1992 Air Education and Training Command Brigadier General George N. Williams 8 August 1994 Brigadier General David R. Love 4 December 1995 Colonel (BGen) Christopher A. Kelly 9 June 1997 Colonel (BGen) Michael C. Gould 29 January 1999 Major General Quentin L. Peterson 10 July 2000 Brigadier General Mark R. Zamzow 30 October 2001 Brigadier General Mark S. Solo 7 August 2003 Colonel Carlton D. Everhart II 22 September 2005 Colonel David W. Allvin 3 August 2007 Colonel Jon T. Thomas 14 July 2009 Colonel Anthony B. Krawietz 23 June 2011