On 10 May 2010, the Change of Command Ceremony was held at General J. Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. Col. Gintaras Bagdonas took over the position of the Commandant of the Gen. J. Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania from Brig.gen. Edvardas Mazeikis, who had been in charge of the Gen. J. Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania since September 2008.

Col. Gintaras Bagdonas started his military service in the defence system in 1991 in the then Panevezys territorial unit of the Voluntary National Defence Service. He served in various departments of the Ministry of Defence until 2007. From April 2007 until March 2008,  Col. Gintaras Bagdonas served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence at the EU Military Staff and in March 2008, after the reorganization of the EU Military Staff, Col. Gintaras Bagdonas became Director Intelligence of the EU Military Staff.

Brig. gen. Edvardas Mazeikis was appointed to the position of the Chief of Defence Staff.

The Change of Command Ceremony at the Gen. J. Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania was attended by the Minister of Defence Rasa Jukneviciene, the Chief of Defence Maj. Gen. Arvydas Pocius, the advisor to President Jonas Markevicius, foreign Defence Attaches, residing in Lithuania, rectors of Lithuanian universities,  representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces.