13th ESC to change command in ceremony

FORT HOOD, Texas – The 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command will welcome its newest commander during a change of command ceremony on Hildner Field here June 3 at 10 a.m.

Brig. Gen. Rodney D. Fogg, will relinquish command to Col. Douglas McArthur McBride Jr. during the ceremony.

McBride, a career ordnance officer, is returning to Fort Hood, Texas. He is coming to the 13th ESC after most recently serving as the Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) G3/5/7 at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Fogg took command of the 13th ESC in July 2014. He deployed the 13th ESC to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in December 2014 to assume the role as the Operational Command Post for the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, with the mission to provide Theater Sustainment Mission Command to Army, Joint, and Multinational Forces in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. He will leave Fort Hood to assume the position as the commandant of the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia.

For media interested in attending the ceremony, please RSVP with Staff Sgt. Jill People, 13th ESC Public Affairs Office, at [email protected] or at (254) 288-7342, no later than 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 2.

Media representatives should arrive at the Marvin Leath Visitors Center media parking area by 9:15 a.m. Friday.