On the surface, the change of command ceremony that took place July 31 in a hangar at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., didn’t look that much different from scores of others that have taken place across the Air Force this summer.
A small flag called a guidon was ceremonially passed from the unit’s outgoing commander to a group commander, who then passed it on to the new unit commander.
But this time, flanking the officers in the background were two…