Europe Medical Brigade hails new command team

Photo By Capt. Robert Gallimore | The brigade colors are passed in perfect step during the pass in review as the outgoing commander, Col. R. Scott Dingle (left), and the incoming commander, Col. W. Mark Stubbs (right), present arms at the 30th Medical Brigade change of command ceremony on Sembach Kaserne May 18. Traditionally, during the pass in review, the colors march in the center of all units passing the official party.  

SEMBACH, RHEINLAND-PFALZ, GERMANY

05.18.2015

Story by Capt. Robert Gallimore 

30th Medical Brigade

SEMBACH, Germany – The 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s 30th Medical Brigade welcomed its new commander during a change of command ceremony at Sembach Kaserne May 18.

During the ceremony Col. R. Scott Dingle, who served as the brigade’s commanding officer for the past year, relinquished command of the 30th Medical Brigade to Col. W. Mark Stubbs.

Scott’s strategic vision and remarkable organizational skills, coupled with a genuine gift for innovative thought and action, have proven instrumental throughout his command," said Maj. Gen. John R. O’Connor, commanding general of the 21st TSC, of Dingle’s leadership during the ceremony.

Dingle, awaiting promotion to brigadier general, will be assigned to the G3/5/7 in the Army’s Office of the Surgeon General at Falls Church, Virginia.

Stubbs, a native of Arkansas, reports to the 30th Medical Brigade from the Army Office of the Surgeon General, where he served as the director of logistics, and executive officer to the Army surgeon general. Stubbs served in a variety of assignments during his extensive career. His previous tours include commander of the 32nd Forward Airborne Medical Logistics Battalion during Operation Iraqi Freedom, chief of the Distribution and Transportation Division, deputy commander for operations, and then commander of U.S. Army Medical Materiel Command-Europe, and student at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Stubbs is a graduate of Arkansas Tech University, the Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He also earned a master’s degree in business administration from Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barrack, Pennsylvania.

"The way I see it, there are two jobs in the Army, command, and waiting for command; and likewise there is no other place that I’d rather serve than U.S. Army Europe. I had to pinch my self this morning to make sure this wasn’t a dream; and this is certainly a dream come true,” said Stubbs during his command acceptance speech.

Command Sgt. Maj. David Hunt assumed responsibility from Command Sgt. Maj. George W. Grace as the senior enlisted adviser to the 30th Medical Brigade during the ceremony.

Grace will be retiring to his home state of Florida where he plans to spend a majority of his days fishing and spending time with his family.

Hunt, a native from Oceanside, California, comes to the 30th Medical Brigade following a successful tour as the operations sergeant major for the Europe Regional Medical Command in Sembach, Germany.

Hunt has served in multiple medical units across the U.S. and overseas and has deployed to Bosnia in support of Operation Just Endeavor.

• Date Taken: 05.18.2015
• Date Posted: 06.01.2015 05:22
• Story ID: 165042
• Location: SEMBACH, RHEINLAND-PFALZ, DE
• Hometown: OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA, US