Long time Houston resident, Marine Officer is Promoted to Next Rank

Photo By Gunnery Sgt. Alexis Mulero | Capt. Callon L. Nichols, the communications officer for the Coordination Liaison and Assessment Team that support U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South at Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group, was promoted to his present rank, June 1. Nichols is a long-time Houston, Texas resident who graduated from M.B. Lamar High School in 2004. Nichols was commissioned in May after completing his degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.  

VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES

06.06.2012

Story by Gunnery Sgt. Alexis Mulero 

Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Long time Houston, Texas resident Callon L. Nichols was promoted to the rank of captain in the United States Marine Corps during a ceremony with Marines and sailors from Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group aboard Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, June 1.

Nichols, who graduated from M. B. Lamar High School in 2004 and from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2008, is currently serving as the communications officer for the Coordination, Liaison, and Assessment Team who supports U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South, at Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group.

Since being commissioned in May 2008, he has held various billets to include a deploying as the communications officer for Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment in 2011 to help Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims.

His current duties have him deploying in support of security cooperation missions across Central and South America.

Nichols lives in the Virginia Beach area of Virginia. His parents Dr. Thomas Nichols and Lynne Liberato still reside in the Houston, Texas area.

Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group is a unit in the Marine Corps that coordinates, manages, executes, and evaluates United States Marine Corps Security Cooperation programs and activities, to include assessment, planning, military related education and training, and advisor support to ensure unity of effort in building Partner Nation Security Forces capacity and capability in order to facilitate USMC and regional Marine Forces component support to combatant commanders security cooperation objectives.

• Date Taken: 06.06.2012
• Date Posted: 06.07.2012 15:05
• Story ID: 89600
• Location: VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, US
• Hometown: ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, US
• Hometown: HOUSTON, TEXAS, US