LIEUTENANT COLONEL Dimitrios NIKOLAKAKOS
Lieutenant Colonel Dimitrios Nikolakakos was born in Athens on the 04 of July 1971. He was admitted to the Military Academy in 1990, graduated in 1994 and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in Artillery.
He was promoted as follows:
- Lieutenant: 1997
- Captain: 2002
- Major : 2008
- Lieutenant Colonel : 2014
He has served in various units and Headquarters, with the following principal assignments
- Trainee in Basic school of his branch in Artillery school 1995-1996
- Battery Commander of a field Artillery Bn 1997-1999
- Tactical Control Officer in AD Artillery SAM ‘’HAWK’’ Bn 1999-2002
- Battery Commander in AD Artillery SAM ‘’HAWK’’ Bn 2002-2004
- Plans and Exercises Staff Officer in AD Artillery SAM ‘’HAWK’’ Bn 2004-2006
- Plans and Exercises Staff Officer in Ops Division/NAMFI 2007-2010
- Deputy Commander of SAM ‘’HAWK’’ Bn 2010-2011
- Military Assistant ACOS J4, SO J7, Joint Forces Command (JFC Naples, Italy) 2011-2014
- Commander of Heavy Artillery unit 2015-2017
- Ops Director of Artillery Regiment in an island Brigade 2017- 2018
- Chief of Tactical Firing Evaluation (TFE) Section
He attended successfully all National schools of his Branch, the ARTY Captain School USA (Fort Sill), The Commanding and Staff Officers School (Thessaloniki), NATO Theater Missile Defense TMD (Oberammergau), Hellenic Supreme Joint War College (Thessaloniki), NATO N3-25 ACO SBAD Taceval Evaluator (Oberammergau)
He has degrees in English, Italian, Spanish and Russian Languages. He has MA’s in Strategy and International Affairs of MAKEDONIA UNIVERSITY
Married to Nafsika Karagianni teacher, with 2 children Christina (13) and Konstantinos (9)