Lieutenant Colonel Caleb Eames is the 2025-2026 US Marine Corps fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. 

His most recent assignment was as the commanding officer of Region 7 (North and West Africa), Marine Corps Embassy Security Group. 

Eames enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1995 as a nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) defense specialist, serving with the 1st Marine Division, the Marine Corps NBC Test and Evaluation Unit, and as a marine security guard in Liberia and Colombia. He later held NBC and intelligence leadership roles in Hawaii and California, deploying twice to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, including work with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Baghdad. Commissioned in 2006 as a public affairs officer, he led communications for Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit during humanitarian operations in the Philippines and Japan, and III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa during Super Typhoon Haiyan relief.  

His later assignments included deputy director of public affairs for Marine Corps Installations Pacific, observer/trainer with the Joint Staff J7, and communications strategy and operations director for 3D Marine Expeditionary Brigade. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 2021, he served as base plans officer at MCB Kaneohe Bay before assuming command in 2023. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice, an MPA in disaster and emergency management, and an MA in communications.