Colonel Devine currently serves as the Director for Defense Press Operations for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), serving as a senior military communication strategist and spokesperson for the Department of Defense.  He directs the daily coordination and release of all external communication for Department of Defense and support to national security press assigned to the Pentagon. 

 A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Colonel Devine joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1989 and later graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1996, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in International Politics.

Since 1997, Chris has served the Marine Corps as a Public Affairs Officer—spanning a wide gambit of national security and defense-related professional public relations, crisis communication, and strategic engagement assignments in the U.S. and overseas.  Over the course of over three decades of military service, he has held a variety of key organizational leadership roles directing and coaching diverse groups of professional communicators, military strategists, marketing/advertising creatives, journalists, and visual storytellers—all driving towards connecting national and international publics to the men and women of the U.S. Marine Corps and the Department of Defense.

Colonel Devine holds Master’s Degrees in Public Administration & Organizational Management from the Pennsylvania State University, the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the Marine Corps War College in National Security Strategy. Additionally, Chris completed an Executive Certification in Strategic Marketing Management from Harvard Business School (Boston, MA