Lauren Serrano, Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of Naval Operations

Major Lauren Serrano (formerly Reisinger) is currently serving as the Aide-De-Camp to the Chief of Naval Operations. Maj Serrano is from San Francisco, California. She commissioned in June 2009 through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program and graduated from Drexel University with a Major in Middle Eastern Studies and dual Minors in Arabic and World Politics. She has studied abroad in Cairo, Egypt and Amman, Jordan.  Maj Serrano’s military occupational specialties include: Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence (CI/HUMINT) officer, Middle Eastern Foreign Area Officer and Weapons and Tactics Instructor. Her first assignment was to CI/HUMINT Company, 3d Intelligence Battalion in Okinawa, Japan from October 2010 to May 2014.  From August 2012 – July 2013 Maj Serrano deployed to the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq (OSC-I), Department of State Embassy - Baghdad. At OSC-I, Maj Serrano first served as the Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff, then as an Intelligence Analyst in the J-2 shop and Collector with the Defense Attaché Office. She spent part of her deployment in Erbil, Iraq providing security assistance to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.  From 2014 – 2017 Maj Serrano completed a fellowship in the Junior Officer’s Strategic Intelligence Program (JOSIP). Her assignments included fellowships at the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and as a resident master’s student at the National Intelligence University (NIU).  From 2017 – 2019 Maj Serrano served as the Intelligence Fusion officer on the I Marine Expeditionary Force staff in Camp Pendleton, California. From June 2019 – 2020 she served a Company Commander and subsequently the Battalion Operations Officer at the Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland.  Maj Serrano is the recipient of the 2014 Chase writing award and the 2020 Hogaboom Leadership writing award from the Marine Corps Association, and the 2015 LtCol Kuszewski NIU writing award recipient for the best Master’s Thesis on the Operations-Intelligence Relationship. She is published in the Marine Corps Gazette, Small Wars Journal, and Foreign Area Officer Association Journal. Maj Serrano is also an elected member and secretary for the FAO Association Board of Governors.  Maj Lauren Serrano is married to Maj David Serrano, who is currently serving as the USMC Cyber Instructor at the United States Naval Academy. Together they have two children, Alexander (5) and Christine (4).