Brigadier McCammon assumed his current appointment as Commander 3rd Brigade on the 14 December 2022. Previous senior appointments include: Director INDOPAC Operations, Commandant Combined Arms Training Centre (CATC); Director Soldier Career Management (SCMA); Senior Career Adviser SCMA; SO1 Combat in Future Force Development, Army Headquarters; and a secondment to the Force Structure Review Team in 2014, as part of the Department’s team that delivered the 2016 Defence White Paper. Staff appointments include Headquarters Training Command (HQTC A) where he served as the Staff Officer to the Chief of Staff and Army Headquarters as Aide de Camp to the Chief of Army. Brigade Major of the Army’s 1st Brigade taking part in HAMEL in 2011 and 2012 and briefly with Combined Task Force Uruzgun (CTU) in Afghanistan in 2012. Brigadier McCammon has divisional experience, having served as SO1-Future Operations Plans as part of the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (Regional Command South) in Afghanistan for 11 months in 2012-2013. His regimental experience includes commanding both a Rifle and Recon Platoon in 5/7 RAR (Mechanised) deploying with the Battalion to INTERFET, East Timor in 1999. Service with the British Army, (The Staffordshire Regiment—an armoured infantry battalion), including a deployment to Kosovo as the OC of the Brigade Surveillance Platoon in 2001. Service at the Combat Training Centre where he served in both the Operations Cell and as an Observer Trainer. Command of a Rifle Company in 7 RAR in 2008 deploying to Afghanistan as the commander of Australia’s first Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT) from September 2008 to July 2009 and as the Operations Officer of 7 RAR. In 2015-2016 Brigadier McCammon was fortunate enough to be selected to command 7 RAR which included deploying elements of the Battalion to Iraq as part of Task Group Taji. He completed Australian Command and Staff College in 2010 and holds a Bachelor’s Degree, a Master of Arts in International Relations, a Graduate Diploma of Strategy in Defence Studies and is a graduate of the Centre for Defence Research Apollo course on Future War Analysis. In the last quarter of 2013, Brigadier McCammon took an extended period of leave and worked as a National Security Fellow at the McCain Institute in Washington DC, where he focused on international foreign policy. His awards include: a Distinguished Service Medal and Bar for service in Afghanistan and Iraq; a Commander Australian Theatre Commendation for Leadership in East Timor; a Secretary/CDF Commendation for the Force Structure Review; a US Army Bronze Star for service in RC(S); and a US Army Commendation Medal for services to Police Mentoring in the Chora Valley. He was appointed Head of Corps Infantry 01 May 2023 and is currently a Board member of the Ronald McDonald House North Australia and the 7 RAR Association. He is married to Annaliese (a physiotherapist) and has four young children.