Command of the 96th Army Reserve Command's 426th Medical Group changed Sunday at a ceremony in the Fort Douglas post theater.
Lt. Col. promotable Richard F. Abbott assumed command of the medical group, replacing Col. A. Wayne Meikle.Abbott is a manager at the Murray accounting firm Stagg & Associates and is currently assigned to the reserve's 328th General Hospital at Fort Douglas as a medical services corps officer.
Meikle is the director of clinical research in endocrinology at the University of Utah. He has been the commander of the 426th since 1987 and is being transferred to the reserve command's headquarters where he will function as ARCOM Surgeon.