Lt. Col.
David Steele assumed command of Marine Aircraft
Group 49 Detachment A at a change of command
ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia on July
9, 2012. The detachment is co-located at Robins AFB
with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773.
David is the great-great grandson of
Patrick “Yankee Pat”
Tinneny of Goladuff, Newtownbutler,
County Fermanagh, N. Ireland; Greenock, Scotland and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
