Place at the helm of the Lithuanian Air Force will from tomorrow, Brigadier General Edvardas Mazheykis, Reported today, May 16, correspondent BakuToday .
Last place of service graduate Chernigov Higher Military Aviation Pilot School – the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence, where he served as Chief of Defence Management.
In his role as commander in chief of the Air Force replaces Edvardas Mazheykis Arturas Laitha, The term of the contract which expired in early 2011.
Mazheykis second time led by the Air Force. Before that, he commanded the air forces of Lithuania in 2000-2004. Brigadier General and served as a Military Representative of Lithuania to NATO and the European Union, headed the Military Academy of Lithuania.
Edvardas Mazheykis – a graduate of the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School. In 1995-1997, he graduated from the Academy of the Bundeswehr, in 2002-2003, to improve knowledge of the U.S. National Defense University, where he received a master’s degree in national security strategy.
