Health professions officers to be considered for command Published Feb. 27, 2012 By Debbie Gildea Air Force Personnel, Services and Manpower Public Affairs RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Medical career field development teams are slated to meet in May and June to consider eligible officers for medical squadron command, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced this week. Officers selected will fill command vacancies between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2013. Eligible officers include regular Air Force lieutenant colonels and lieutenant colonel-selects who have been on station since Sept. 1, 2011 or earlier. Aerospace medicine residents and in-residence senior developmental education students who will graduate in 2013 are also eligible, as are nurse corps and medical service corps SDE equivalent program students slated to graduate in 2013. Dental corps, medical corps and medical service corps officers who have successfully commanded once already may compete for a larger squadron, depending on their development team recommendation. Airmen who want to be considered for command must indicate that interest on the Airmen Development Plan statement of intent, said Lt. Col Angie Ogawa, AFPC Medical Force Management Branch chief. The statement must be endorsed by the candidate's senior rater or senior rater's designee, and the senior rater must submit it to AFPC no later than April 6. The biomedical sciences corps development team will meet May 13-19, and the dental corps board will meet the following week, May 20-26. Medical corps DT members will meet June 3-9; the medical service corps DT will be June 10-16; and nurse corps DT members will meet June 24-30. Command is not for everyone, so some eligible officers will decline consideration, and some who apply will not be selected. Those who do not want to be considered must submit their declination by April 6, Ogawa said. "We have fewer command openings than interested candidates, generally, so not all officers who apply will be selected. Command is a critical component in developing Air Force leaders, and the responsibility inherent in the position demands that we carefully assess every candidate and select those who will serve the Air Force's needs," said Ogawa. Officers selected for the command candidate list are considered volunteers for worldwide command opportunities, including indeterminate temporary duty positions, and those named to the command candidate list who are not initially selected for a command position will remain on the list and may be considered for an unanticipated command opening. For more information about command opportunities and other personnel issues, visit the Air Force Personnel Services website at https://gum-crm.csd.disa.mil.