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Brian Callsen

Director of Alumni Relations, Corps of Cadets
Portrait of Brian Callsen in front of the Corps of Cadets and American flags
callsen@vt.edu

Brian Callsen started as the Virgina Tech Corps of Cadets’ Director of Alumni Relations on May 1, 2025.  He is a 1990 graduate of Virginia Tech and the Corps of Cadets. After graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and completed Air Force intelligence training in Texas.  Brian had assignments in the United States, Germany, and Japan, as well as deployments to Saudi Arabia, Italy, Turkey, and Afghanistan. After a number of years on active duty, he transitioned to the Air Force Reserves and began work as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as an analyst and manager, leading and producing intelligence assessments for the most senior policy makers and warfighters on national security topics that included South Asia and the Pacific region.  Brian retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Forces Reserves in 2012 and later retired from the CIA in 2023.