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Allegiance  United Kingdom
Rank  Air marshal
Years of service  1974 - 2012
Service/branch  Royal Air Force
Battles/wars  Kosovo War Iraq War
Name  Chris Nickols

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Commands held  No. 2 Squadron RAF Lossiemouth Air Warfare Centre
Awards  Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire

Battles and wars  Kosovo War, Iraq War

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Air Marshal Christopher Mark Nickols CB CBE DL (born 23 July 1956) is a retired senior officer in the Royal Air Force, whose final appointment was Chief of Defence Intelligence. Prior to that he served as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations).

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RAF career

Educated at St Edmund's School in Canterbury and having read Engineering at Downing College, Cambridge, Nickols joined the Royal Air Force in 1974. He served as a pilot, flying Jaguars in Germany for 9 years before becoming Officer Commanding No. 2 Squadron in 1993. He was appointed Director of the UK Combined Air Operations Centre in 1997, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood during the Kosovo War and then Station Commander at RAF Lossiemouth in 2000. He was also Air Commodore Offensive Operations at Headquarters No. 1 Group. He was also Director of the Combined Air Operations Centre for four months in 2003 during the Iraq War. He was made Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) in 2005 and Chief of Defence Intelligence in 2009.

He is Chairman of the RAF Polo Association, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.

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