Lieutenant Colonel Valerijus Serelis

DATE OF BIRTH :
23 June 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH
Pagegiai,  Silute District, Lithuania
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1992 Agriculture University, degree in Forestry; 
2001 Baltic Defence College, senior staff officer course.

MILITARY RANKS CONFERRED
1993 Lieutenant;
1995 Senior Lieutenant;
1997 Captain;
2001 Major;
2011 Lieutenant Colonel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1991 volunteer, platoon leader in the Voluntary service;
1992 Rescue Platoon leader in the MOD Civil Defence Department;
1996 NBCO (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical officer), Lithuanian Navy 7th Dragoons Coastal Defence Battalion;
1997 HQ company commander, Lithuanian Navy 7th Dragoons Coastal Defence Battalion;
1999 NBCO in the West Brigade HQ;
2000-2001 student, Baltic Defence College;
2001 Deputy Commander/Chief of Staff Jaeger Battalion;
2002 – 2003 Special Operations Forces squadron Commander (CSOF EAGLE) and Lithuanian SNR (Senior National Representative) in OEF (Operation Enduring Freedom), Afghanistan.
2004 appointed as Senior instructor for tactics at the Captain Course in Lithuanian Military academy
2005 - trainer/adviser to IMAR (Iraq Military Academy Ar Rustamajah), Lithuanian SNR in NTM-I (NATO Training Mission - Iraq)
2006 - Instructor Special Operations Forces / Information Operations, Project officer
for project “The Nature of Insurgency and Counter- Insurgency“ in JCGSC (Joint
Command and General Staff Course). Operations Department, Baltic Defence College.
2011 – Deputy Commandant for Military Training and Education, Military Academy of
Lithuania

DECORATIONS:

Commander of Land Forces - Medal for Distinguished Service
Minister of Defence – Medal for International Operations
President of Republic of Lithuania – commemorative badge ”For personal contribution to the development of Lithuanian transatlantic relations and on the occasion of Lithuania‘s accession to NATO”
President of Republic of Lithuania - the Commemorative Medal of 13 January
President of Republic of Lithuania - the Order of the Cross of Vytis
NATO medal - NTM-I (NATO Training Mission - Iraq)
Minister of Defence – Medal for International Operations (bronze-coloured numeral “2”)
Baltic Defence College Commandant – The Baltic Defence College Medal of Merit (bronze)
Baltic Defence College Commandant – The Baltic Defence College Service Cross
Baltic Defence College Commandant – The Baltic Defence College Medal of Merit (silver)
Baltic Defence College Commandant – The Baltic Defence College Service Cross (recognised with a small bronze coloured star)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English, Russian

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Sports, music, poetry.