CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan -- The III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, III MEF held a change of command ceremony here for former commanding officer, Col. Dewey G. Jordan, and to welcome new commanding officer, Col. David P. Olszowy, July 2.
Jordan will be the new deputy chief of staff, G-2, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III MEF.
Olszowy was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1985 after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Carolina.
Notable posts for Olszowy include the Command Control Communications and Computer J-6 Directorate as the chief for the Joint Communications Security Branch and the assistant chief of the Joint Exercise Communications Branch with U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Va., and the Joint Training Analysis Simulation Center (now the Joint Warfighting Center), Joint Forces Air Component Commander, and Theater Missile Defense operations and the USACOM J-3 Directorate as an operational planner and Composition 4 subject matter expert for the Deployed Joint Task Force Augmentation Cell.
He is a graduate of the National War College, Amphibious Warfare School and the Marine Corps Command & Staff College.
Olszowy's combat tours include Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Sept. 1990 until April 1991 and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Jan. - Oct. 2003 and Feb. - Sept. 2004.
Olszowy's awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and various service and campaign medals.