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ALT Photo: Brian stands smiling in a polo shirt in front of a building on Upper Quad. Brian Callsen started as the Virginia 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 as a second lieutenant and completed Air Force intelligence training in Texas. Callsen 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. Callsen retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Forces Reserve in 2012 and later retired from the CIA in 2023.

ALT Photo: Maj Gen Seely stands with two cadets and a representative from Giles County with flags in the background Special congratulations go to November Company for winning this year’s Platoon Tactical Challenge and Kohler Cup, to the Highty-Tighties for placing first in Eager Squad, and to Echo Company for winning the Beverly S. Parish Award, known as Gold Cord! In a touching moment, Giles County also presented Maj. Gen. Seely and cadets Carson Manternach and Thomas Feely with tokens of appreciation for support from the Corps during Hurricane Helene cleanup efforts including a commendation from the House of Delegates, and announced the naming of a boat landing on the New River, Cadet Landing, in honor of the regiment’s service. More photos from the ceremony are available on the Corps’ Flickr. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCcA7H



































