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TOOELE, Utah (AP) -- Utah's Deseret Chemical Depot says Col. Mark B. Pomeroy will take over as commander on Thursday.
Pomeroy was branch chief for the U.S. Army's Nuclear and Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency in Virginia.
In Utah, he will succeed Col. Gerald L. Gladney, who will become the Pentagon's director for chemical demilitarization programs.
The Deseret Chemical Depot is destroying the nation's largest stockpile of chemical weapons, and the Army says Pomeroy will bring that task to a close before finishing his two-year assignment in Utah's west desert.
The director of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, Conrad Whyne, will conduct the change of command in a ceremony Thursday. State and federal officials have been invited.
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