{"id":393920,"date":"2026-07-31T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393920\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:55:14","slug":"live-joint-base-san-antonio-welcomes-new-commander-during-change-of-command-ceremony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393920\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Joint Base San Antonio welcomes new commander during change of command ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/YX92A4p4LMk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WATCH IT LIVE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Joint Base San Antonio welcomes new leadership Friday morning as Brig. Gen. David J. Wilson officially assumes command of the installation during a formal change of command ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson took over leadership of Joint Base San Antonio and the 502d Air Base Wing from Brig. Gen. Randy P. Oakland, who served as the outgoing commander.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony, held at 9:30 a.m., marked the official transfer of responsibility for what is recognized as the Department of Defense&#8217;s largest joint base.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Base San Antonio includes Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base and several other military facilities across the region, supporting military training, operations and missions throughout South Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH IT LIVE SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Joint Base San Antonio welcomes new leadership Friday morning as Brig. Gen.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-393920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}