Lt Col Brian Christmas

Where he goes, they go. For Jump Platoon 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, "he" is Lt Col Brian Christmas. The Colonel hand-picked many members of the team.

"I trust them completely," Christmas says. Analysis and Assessments Branch Military Veteran with over 27 years of proven experience in strategic and operational planning, project management, leading people, and leading change, seeking. Marine Lt.

Col. Brian Christmas listens as an interpreter translates the concerns of Marjah residents about opening a school. Local people fear the Taliban who have remained in the area, hidden.

of mines and bombs. In an attempt to draw pockets of the blocking force into a premature engagement, Taliban mortar and small- arms teams repeatedly harassed elements of the force, such as Lima Company of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines who were positioned on the northern edge of the town.8 The commander of 3/6 Marines, Lt. Col.

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Brian Christmas, commanding officer of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, mingles with Afghan locals following a reintegration shura at Forward Operating Base Sher Wali, Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, June 23, 2010. During the event, six Marjah locals with former connections to the Taliban were reintegrated back in to society. In an attempt to contain the creeping Taliban campaign, Lt.

Col. Christmas's 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment in northern Marjah recently ceded direct control of an outlying rural area. "This is a very important step," said Lt.

Col. Brian Christmas, commander of the 3rd Battalion, explaining that the linkup gives NATO forces control of a continuous north. FLINTOFF: Marine Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas and his men walk across a windblown stretch of desert, headed toward a walled compound where a farmer was killed by Marines just the night before.

The elder's devotion to a more secure Marjah was recognized by Lt. Col. Brian Christmas, commanding officer, 3/6.

"We lost a leader last night," Christmas said. "They are squeezed," said Lt. Col.

Brian Christmas, commander of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. "It looks like they want to stay and fight but they can always drop their weapons and.