TOKYO — Carrier Air Wing-Five held a change of command ceremony in the skies over Naval Air Facility Atsugi on Wednesday.

While flying in F/A-18 Super Hornets, Capt. Daniel S. Cave, deputy commander of the air wing, relieved Capt. Ross A. Myers, according to Navy officials.

The reading of orders took place as Myers and Cave flew over the airfield, according to a Navy news release.

“Instead of the standard ceremony we decide to do an airborne change of command,” Cave said, according to the release. “What better way to do it then in the air, flying and putting on a good show for our friends and families.”

“This is the way aviators like to do change of commands,” Meyers is quoted in the release. “In the air where we do our business.”

From staff reports

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