June 28 will mark the change of command for Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama and Aggie, Col. Trent H. Edwards will be named the new commander of the 42nd Air Base Wing.

He will be responsible for overseeing all functions on Maxwell and Gunter Annex that directly support Air University, the 908th Airlift Wing, Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems, more than 30 tenant units and the 12,700 active-duty, reserve, civilian and contractor personnel assigned to the base.

Edwards is currently the commander of the 28th Mission Support Group, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. He leads a group of more than 1,650 military and civilian members who provide agile combat support to the joint warfighter and sustainable base operating support to 8,000 military and civilian personnel and their families.

He entered the Air Force in 1990 after graduating from North Carolina A&T State University. He has commanded squadrons at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington and Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He has served as the director of staff at an Air Refueling Wing and in key staff positions such as Aide de Camp to the Commander Air Education and Training Command and Senior Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller. He has extensive congressional experience and was assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Legislative Liaison, and served as a National Defense Fellow to a member of congress. He also has attended the program for Senior Officials in National Security at Harvard University. He is a joint qualified officer.

Edwards has experience in combat and counterinsurgency operations, including deployments to Guantanamo Bay Cuba as the Chief of Staff for the Office of the Administrative Review of Enemy Combatants; Balad, Iraq as the CJ8 for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force and Kabul, Afghanistan as the CJ8, NATO Training Mission/Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan.