CNA Seminar Series

July 22, 2010

Noon-1:30 p.m. Brigadier General Lawrence D. Nicholson, USMC, will brief on the 2nd MEB's deployment in Helmand and Farah provinces in southern Afghanistan May 2009-April 2010 and offer views on the challenges he and his Marines faced in Afghanistan and what he projects going forward. General Nicholson will have just assumed his new duty as the Senior Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was previously the Commanding General, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and will  Nicholson is a graduate of The Citadel, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the NATO Defense College in Rome. His overseas deployments include an assignment as a United Nations Observer for the UNTSO Palestine, as AO with the 26 MEU in the Balkans, and as Division G-3 with the 1st Marine Division in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. In July 2005 he assumed command of the 5th Marine Regiment and returned to Iraq with his regiment from January 2006 to February 2007.