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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Brig. Gen. Maryanne Miller (left), 349th Air Mobility Wing commander, hands the flag of the 349th Mission Support Group to Col. Nancy Brooks, signifying Colonel Brooks’ assumption of command of the Group in a ceremony at Bldg. 31, June 6. In her remarks, Colonel Brooks thanked her family for their patience and support, Col. Linda L. Harlan, outgoing 349th MSG commander, for her years of outstanding leadership of the Group, and General Miller, for the opportunity to serve as commander of the Group. With approximately 1,100 personnel, Mission Support Group is larger than some Air Force wings. Its functions include personnel administration, training, information management, lodging, food services, security forces, civil engineering, explosive ordnance disposal, disaster preparedness, airfield management, aircraft loading and passenger movement, logistics readiness and communications and computers. Colonel Brooks started her military career as an enlisted Army medical technician, with the 6253rd U.S. Army Hospital, Hamilton Field, Calif. transferring to the Air Force Reserve in 1980, she served with the 349th in the Medical and Logistics Groups until 1995. Colonel Brooks went on to serve in a variety of Air Force Reserve units around the nation as a logistics operations officer, squadron commander and numbered Air Force staff officer. Prior to her return to Travis, Colonel Brooks was commander, 934th Mission Support Group, Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station, Minn. (U.S. Air Force photo / Maj. Robert Couse-Baker) (Released)