Personnel center leadership changes hands

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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) --  Air Force Personnel Center officials welcomed their 23rd commander during a change-of-command ceremony here Jan. 16. 

Maj. Gen. K.C. McClain, a 30-year career Airman, succeeds Maj. Gen. Anthony F. Przybyslawski, who was selected for reassignment as director of operations for Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton III, the deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel at Headquarters Air Force, presided over the ceremony. General McClain previously served as the director of force management policy, deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel at the Pentagon. 

"Although the Air Force has changed tremendously in the past 30 years, the one thing that hasn't changed is the professionalism and can-do attitude of Airmen," General McClain said. "Personnelists across the Air Force exemplify that professionalism and attitude every day.

"Having been at Air Staff helping shape personnel policy, it's a natural fit to now become the commander responsible for implementing the programs under that policy," the general said.

The new commander is a career personnel officer. She returns to Randolph AFB on her third assignment here. While here in the early 1990s, she was an assignment team chief, and then the executive officer through three commander rotations.

"I learned a great deal from each of them, and their advice continues to inspire me. I'm proud to be following them as the center commander," the general said.

General McClain has served in a variety of assignments to include commanding the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver, the 17th Training Wing at Goodfellow AFB, Texas, and the 314th Support Group at Little Rock AFB, Ark. She also served as the director of personnel for U.S. Pacific Command at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.

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