Leadership changes hands for 2nd Air Force July 21 Published June 23, 2011 By Susan Griggs 81st Training Wing Public Affairs KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- Maj. Gen. Mary Kay Hertog turns over command of 2nd Air Force to Brig. Gen. Leonard Patrick, 9 a.m. July 21 on the parade field. General Hertog returns to the Pentagon to direct the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. Her successor is Brig. Gen. Leonard Patrick, commander of the 502nd Air Base Wing at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. As 2nd Air Force's commander since September 2009, General Hertog is responsible for the development, oversight, and direction of all operational aspects of basic military training, initial skills training, and advanced technical training for the Air Force's enlisted force and support officers. Second Air Force provides training in over 250 Air Force specialties through 2,500 courses graduating 245,000 Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and international students annually in diverse areas including aircraft maintenance, civil engineering, medical, computer, avionics, security forces, space and missile operations/maintenance, and multiple intelligence disciplines. The command includes training wings at Keesler; Sheppard, Lackland, and Goodfellow Air Force Bases, Texas; a training group at Vandenberg AFB, Calif.; and a network of 92 field training units around the world. Second Air Force also oversees all Airmen throughout the joint expeditionary tasking/individual augmentee training pipeline at Army training sites across the country and provides a 24/7 operations center for pre- and postdeployment support. General Hertog entered the Air Force in 1978 as an ROTC distinguished graduate. As a career security forces officer, she has worked at unit, major command and Air Staff level in various positions, to include commanding several large security forces units, a technical training group and one of the Air Force's largest training wings at Lackland. Prior to her 2nd Air Force assignment, she served at the Pentagon as the Air Force Director of Security Forces. She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Miami University, Ohio, and a master's degree in industrial psychology from Webster University, Mo. General Patrick currently commands Joint Base San Antonio which includes Randolph, Lackland and the Army's Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis. The 8,000-person 502nd ABW consolidates 49 installation management support functions for a military community with an annual operating budget of more than $700 million and a $10.9 billion plant replacement value. It encompasses more than 80,000 full-time personnel, 145,000 students and a retiree community of more than 250,000. The 502nd ABW also supports in excess of $4.5 billion in directed base closure and realignment and other major projects. General Patrick is a 1981 Air Force Academy graduate with a degree in civil engineering and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Boston University and strategic studies from Air War College. He commanded the 37th Training Wing, Lackland; 60th Mission Support Group, Travis AFB, Calif.; and 12th Civil Engineer Squadron, Randolph. He served as director of installations and mission support at Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, Ill., and civil engineer at Air Education and Training Command, Randolph. General Patrick served two years in foreign military sales as a construction manager for the Royal Saudi Air Force in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, coordinating host-nation support for deployed forces and performing contingency airfield analysis.