AFCEC deputy director retires after 30 years of service

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TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- --  After 30 years of service, Col. David L. Reynolds retired from the Air Force in a ceremony here June 14. 

Before retirement, Reynolds served as deputy director of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, a position held since October 2012. As deputy director, Reynolds assisted the director with oversight of AFCEC's directorates and served as site lead at Tyndall. From July 2010 to September 2012, he was commander of the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency at Tyndall, one of three field operating agencies that merged to establish AFCEC nine months ago.

Reynolds received his commission in the Air Force in 1983 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Following his first assignment with the 3750th Civil Engineer Squadron at Sheppard AFB, Texas, he has held a variety of leadership and engineering duties from wing level to the Pentagon.

Reynolds has served as a squadron commander, deputy group commander and group commander, as well as Strategic Air Command's Resident Engineer for Base Realignment and Closure. He has served at the Pentagon at Headquarters, U.S. Air Force Civil Engineering and the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for Legislative Liaison, specializing in military construction and base realignment and closure.

A registered Professional Engineer in Texas, Reynolds has Masters degrees in both political science and national security and strategic studies and a Masters of science in civil engineering. His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters and the Society of American Military Engineers' Newman Medal. The colonel is also a SAME Fellow.

Reynolds' retirement, at least temporarily, ends a family tradition of service to the United States. His father, retired Col. P.G. Reynolds, enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1943 and served in WWII as a B-24 flight engineer and gunner before going on to a 36-year career as an Air Force civil engineer officer. Reynolds' brother, Tom, served on active duty and in civil service as an Air Force and Department of Energy contracting officer for more than 33 years.