McDew married in 1983 to the former Evelyn K. Massenburg. They have a daughter, Keisha, and a son, Keith, an officer in the United States Coast Guard.[2]
Assignments
McDew was born in Rantoul, Illinois in 1960.[3] Upon graduation from Virginia Military Institute in 1982 as the first African American Regimental Commander[4][circular reference] with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, McDew was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force and, following flight training, began his operational flying career at Loring Air Force Base, Maine. His staff assignments include serving as a member of the Air Force Chief of Staff Operations Group, Air Force aide to the President, chief of the Air Force Senate Liaison Division and the director of Air Force Public Affairs. McDew served as vice director for Strategic Plans and Policy for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also served as the commander of Eighteenth Air Force at Scott Air Force Base,[5] and commanded at the squadron, group and wing levels as well as at an Air Force direct reporting unit. He deployed in support of ongoing operations in Central and Southwest Asia as an air expeditionary group commander and later as the director of mobility forces. Prior to his final assignment, McDew was the commander of Air Mobility Command.[6]
In the course of his career McDew completed the following assignments:[7][8]
March 1984 – June 1989, Standardization and Evaluation Copilot, Aircraft Commander, Instructor Pilot and Flight commander, 42nd Air Refueling Squadron, Loring AFB, ME
July 1989 – June 1992, Combat Crew Training School examiner and Instructor Pilot, Assistant Deputy Wing Inspector and Wing Executive Officer, 93rd Bomb Wing, Castle AFB, CA
August 1999 – July 2000, Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellow, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.[9]
July 2000 – January 2002, Commander, 62nd Operations Group, McChord AFB, WA. (TDY September 2001 – December 2001, Commander, 60th Air Expeditionary Group, Southwest Asia)
July 2003 – January 2005, Chief, U.S. Air Force Senate Liaison Division, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
January 2005 – July 2006, Commander, 43rd Airlift Wing, and Installation Commander, Pope AFB, NC (TDY January 2006 – May 2006, Director of Mobility Forces, Southwest Asia)
^Fikes, Robert (29 October 2017). "BlackPast.org – McDew, Darren Wayne (1960– )". BlackPast.org. Retrieved July 20, 2018. Married since 1983 to the former Evelyn K. Massenburg, they have a daughter, Keisha, and a son, Keith, an officer in the United States Coast Guard.
Air Mobility Command Public Affairs. "AMC Welcomes a New Commander". Air Mobility Command, United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
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