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Sequence of Events
USAIR FORCE SONG
Arrival of Official Party
National Anthem
OFF WE GO INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER, CLIMBING HIGH INTO THE SUN;
Invocation
Commanding Officer Remarks
Administration of Oath,
HERE THEY COME, ZOOMING TO MEET OUR THUNDER,
AT ‘EM NOW, GIVE ‘EM THE GUN!
DOWN WE DIVE, SPOUTING OUR FLAMES FROM UNDER, OFF WITH ONE HELLUVAROAR!
Pinning of Rank
WE LIVE IN FAME OR GO DOWN IN FLAME. HEY!
First Salute
Air Force Song
Reception
NOTHING’LL STOP THE U.S.AIR FORCE!
Colonel Justin W. Boldenow
United States Air Force
Colonel Justin W. Boldenow is Commander, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 675 and Professor of Aerospace Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. In this position, he leads a team of seven Airmen recruiting, educating, training, and evaluating more than 170 prospective officer candidates for commissioned service in the U.S. Air Force and Space Force through academic instruction on organization, history, leadership, doctrine, and communications skills with emphasis on physicalfitnessand professionalism.
Detachment 675 also serves as the host detachment for cadets from Rose State College, Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Oklahoma City University, and the University of Central Oklahoma. Additionally, he executes Air Force and University budgets and scholarships totaling more than $1 million. Colonel Boldenow received his commission in 1993 as a distinguished graduate of South Dakota State University AFROTC Detachment 780. He has served as a communications engineer, B-1B instructor and evaluator Weapon System Officer (WSO), and operation support squadron director of operations. His staff experience includes tours at the Center and Major Command levels as well as with the Joint Staff Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate. He has served as the Commander, 479th Operations Support Squadron, NAS Pensacola, Florida; Commander, 7th Operations Group, Dyess AFB, Texas; and prior to assuming his current position, he was the Deputy Director of Operations, Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. Colonel Boldenow is a Master Navigator with more than 2,800 hours in the T-43, T-37, T-39, B-1B and T-1A aircraft, including more than 125 B-1Bcombat hoursin support of Operation ENDURINGFREEDOM.
Lt Christopher B. Mullen is from Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from The University of Oklahoma’s Gallogly College of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in AerospaceEngineering. Hewill reporttoEglinAirForce Base in Valparaiso Florida as a Developmental EngineerAeronautical.
Lt Justin G. Wilson is from Norman, Oklahoma and graduatedfromTheUniversityofOklahoma’sGallogly College of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. He will report to Hulbert
Field Air Force Base in Mary Ester Florida as a DevelopmentalEngineerAstronautical.
OathOfficer–
LieutenantColonelRustanS.Schwichtenberg,USAF(ret)
Pinning – Mother and Father Melissa and Brian Mullen, andgrandmotherSusanA.Dishong
First Salute – Master Sergeant Kyle C. Gordinier, USAF (ret)
OathOfficer-
CaptainNelsonT.Engle,UnitedStatesArmy
Pinning–FatherandbrotherTroyandTrevorWilson
FirstSalute- MasterSergeantDanielleR.Ford,USAF
Justin G. Wilson Christopher B. Mullen