VIENNA — The 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station has a new commander who will be sworn in Saturday morning.

Col. Mike Michael Maloney most recently was chief of the programs division at the Air Force Reserve Command at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. He was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Missouri, and began his career as a navigator and electronic warfare officer in the B-52H at Barksdale Air Force Base before graduating from pilot training in 2002.

Maloney is a command pilot with more than 5,000 military and civilian hours. He also has been assigned as the Wing Inspector General and Director of Inspections, and has deployed to Entebbe, Uganda, as the Commander of the Joint Special Operations Detachment-Uganda and the 5th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron.

Maloney also was assigned as the Chief of Foreign Language Training and the Senior Director of Air Force Special Operations Command, as well as the U.S. Air Forces Europe/Air Forces Africa liaison officer to U.S. Africa Command.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1995. In 2001, he graduated from Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Ala. He earned a Master of International Relations at Troy University, Ala., in 2008, and graduated from Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Ala., by correspondence in 2010.

He earned a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St Louis, Mo. in 2013, and graduated from Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Ala., in 2014. In 2017, he completed the Reserve Component National Security Course at National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C.

He attended Combined Joint Warfare School at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. in 2018. In 2019, he completed a Director of Mobility Forces Course at Hurlburt Field, Fla. and an Air Mobility Command Nuclear Leadership Course at Scott AFB, Illinois. In 2022, he graduated from Data Analytics Boot Camp at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.

Maloney’s previous assignments included student at Joint Specialized Staff Undergraduate Navigator Training at Randolph AFB, Texas, from June 1995 to June 1996, and student at Naval Flight Officer Training at Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., from June to August of 1996.

He was a student at Joint Aviation Electronic Warfare School at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Corry Station, Fla., from August 1996 to January 1997.

Maloney replaces Col. Jeff Van Dootingh, who returned to YARS in June 2021 after previously serving there from 2000 to 2008.

The 910th Airlift Wing is comprised of more than 1,400 Air Force Reserve and civilian professionals and is equipped with eight C-130H2 aircraft. As commander, he is responsible for the training of personnel and employment of C-130 Hercules aircraft globally on medium-range airlift, tactical airland and airdrop, as well as Aeromedical Evacuation missions.

In addition, the 910th is home to the Department of Defense’s only large area, fixed-wing aerial spray mission.