Personnel at Edwards AFB, Calif., found Col. Bryan J. Gallagher unconscious in a base fitness center parking lot early Tuesday morning, according to a base release. Efforts to revive the colonel, who had commanded the 95th Air Base Wing since last spring, were unsuccessful. He was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, where medical personnel declared him dead at 7:45 a.m. Gallagher was a Civil Engineer officer and had served as the 95th ABW vice commander before assuming command. There was no word yet as to the cause of death.
Unit commanders are being told to separate service members who can’t shave their cheeks and chin for medical reasons for more than a year, according to new guidance from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
