PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - An Army Command Selection Board named a former company commander within the 1st Space Battalion as the battalion's next commander. Lt. Col. J. Dave Price, currently the Joint Senior Space Duty Officer and Chief of Special Technical Operations, J39 Division, Joint Functional Component Command - Space, will replace the current Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Tom James, some time next summer.
"I am honored, excited and humbled at the opportunity to serve in the 1st Space Battalion," said Price.
"From STRATCOM and JFCC SPACE, I have heard only glowing remarks about the unit and the Soldiers of the 1st Space Battalion and their exemplary and critical support to the Joint Space mission area. My family and I are looking forward to being a part of this experience and to serve with and for the unit once again."
Price entered the Army in 1985 and served three years on Active Duty. In 1990, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Oklahoma Army National Guard. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma the following year and returned to Active Duty in 1992. Price has served in assignments in Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma and Bosnia, and deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Carson, Colo. He served as the 1st Space Battalion's 1st Space Company (Theater Missile Warning) commander from May 2004 - May 2006.
Price graduated from the following Space courses: Space 200, Space 300, Space Operations Officer Qualification Course (FA 40), Space in the Air Operations Center Course and the Inter-service Space Intelligence Operators Course.
The 1st Space Battalion provides Space Support to combatant commanders in the form of Space-based capabilities to include Space Imagery, Space Weather and Early Missile Warning.
James' follow on assignment has yet to be determined.
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