Col Brian Christmas

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. 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. Col Brian S.

Christmas is currently serving as operations officer for Training Command. He is an infantry officer who commanded 3d Battalion, 6th Marines, attended the Israel National Defense College, and served as a member of U.S. Africa Command.

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. Lt. Col.

Brian S. Christmas (right), commanding officer of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, speaks to India Company commander, Capt. Bill Hefty, commanding officer of India Company, 3/6, in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb.

23, 2010. Marines and Afghan National Army soldiers are conducting counterinsurgency operations as part of Operation Moshtarak, a push to rid the city of. Lt.

Col. 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.

Lt. Col. Brian Christmas, commander of the 3rd Battalion, and his personal security detail, have been blown up 16 times in their daily missions around the area.

The Marines prefer to walk in order to avoid IED-laced roads. And even when walking, they try to stay off the dirt paths that wind through the fields and orchards between Marjah's collection of small villages. "The fighting is more.

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Escape will cancel and close the window. Add the following CSS to the header block of your HTML document. 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.

Lt. Col. 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.