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Pacific's Only Army Dive Unit Conducts Underwater Change of Command

8th Theater Sustainment Command

Dec. 18, 2014 | 3:52

With the mission of performing underwater reconnaissance, demolition and salvage operations across the Pacific Theater, it only makes sense for the Army's 7th Engineer Dive Detachment to conduct its change of command ceremony in a location its troops consider home -- underwater. The unique unit, which falls under the 8th Theater Sustainment Command's 130th Engineer Brigade, and is stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, changed leadership during a ceremony at the bottom of Richardson Pool on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Dec. 18, 2014. Capt. Robert J. Meyer relinquished command to Capt. Troy F. Davidson. Meyer is a 2007 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Davidson is from Renton, Washington, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama.