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Patrick Donohue is the Gazette’s Police, Fire, and Military reporter. Donohue is a native of Terre Haute, Ind. and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. He was previously a general assignment reporter at The Destin Log in northwest Florida.
Air Station's Werewolves get new commanding officer
The new commanding officer of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 won’t have to travel far to assume his new duty post.
Formerly the executive officer of Marine Aircraft Group 31, Lt. Col. John A. Bolt assumed command of VMFA-122, nicknamed the Werewolves, during a ceremony Friday outside the squadron’s hangar at MCAS Beaufort.
Bolt will move down MCAS Beaufort’s flightline to assume command of the squadron’s 200 Marines and sailors who maintain and fly single-seat F-18 Hornets. Bolt will be replaced as MAG-31’s executive officer by Lt. Col. Shawn Patrick Callahan, formerly Marine Aircraft Group 31’s director of safety and standardization.
Bolt will replace Lt. Col. Douglas G. Douds, who has commanded the squadron since January 2008. He is credited most with leading the squadron on a seven-month deployment to Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, from which the Werewolves returned earlier this year.
Douds will report to the Army War College in Carlise, Pa., for his next assignment, according to the air station.
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