Team Kirtland welcomes Col. Heather L. Pringle

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KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. --  Team Kirtland welcomes Col. Heather L. Pringle as the vice commander of the 377th Air Base Wing.

Colonel Pringle graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1991. She is a behavioral scientist with a range of acquisition experience, including science and technology development at the Air Force Research Laboratory, program management at the Joint Surveillance Target Acquisition Radar System Joint Program Office, and security assistance for the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs. In addition, she promoted international relationships, interoperable capabilities, and sustained engagement with partners in the Middle East and Asia during her tenure as the commander of the 555th International Materiel Squadron and while serving in Afghanistan as the Political Advisor's Staff Director for the International Security Assistance Forces. Most recently, she served as the Deputy Chief of the Program and Budget Analysis Division on the Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

Select the following link to see her full biography: http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/biographies/bio.asp?id=16846

The 377th Air Base Wing provides highly trained forces in support of the Air Force nuclear enterprise, expeditionary combat forces to combatant commanders, and is responsible for installation security, operations, maintenance and mission support for more than 23,000 military and civilian employees who live and work on Kirtland's 52,000 acres.

The 377th Air Base Wing is the host unit for more than 100 mission partners, including the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, Air Force Safety Center, Air Force Inspection Agency, Air Force Distributed Mission Operations Center, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Air Force Research Laboratory, 58th Special Operations Wing, 150th Wing of the New Mexico Air National Guard, U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, and Sandia National Laboratories.