MINOT (AP) - Minot Air Force Base is getting a new commander.

Col. Eldon Woodie, who has been commander of the 5th Bomb Wing since June 2005, will turn over command on June 5 to Col. Bruce Emig. The bomb wing commander also serves as base commander.

Emig is a former commander of the 23rd Bomb Squadron at the Minot base. He also has been director of operations for the 23rd, and chief of group plans and programs for the Minot bomb wing.

He currently is the vice commander of the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.

Emig is a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and has been in the Air Force since 1985. He has more than 3,400 flight hours, including 33-plus hours in combat.

Woodie is retiring from the Air Force and plans to move to Alabama, where he will run a Junior ROTC program at a high school in a community south of Birmingham. On Monday, Woodie will make his last B-52 flight as 5th Bomb Wing commander and as an Air Force pilot.

The 5th Bomb Wing operates 35 B-52 bombers.