AUSTIN, Texas – (July 18, 2025) – U.S. Marine Corps veteran Burrell D. Parmer, of Monroe, La., was installed as the 3rd Division vice commander of the American Legion Department of Texas during the department’s annual convention held at the Renaissance Austin Hotel July 13.
In his role as the division’s vice commander, Parmer aims to increase the 3rd Division’s regional efforts in membership growth, public relations, and the promotion of The American Legion’s programs and services.
Additionally, Parmer, a 1991 graduate of Delta High School in Mer Rouge, La., was appointed to chair the department’s Media, Marketing and Communications Committee.
Parmer enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in August 1991. In 1997, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and entered the Field Artillery. In 2000, he began a career in public relations as a public affairs officer. During his tour, he graduated from the U.S. Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md., and earned a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice administration from Park University.
After a six-year tour of duty in Okinawa, Japan, which included deployments to Iraq, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Guam and Australia, he transferred to the Joint Information Operations Warfare Center in San Antonio in 2008 for joint duty as an information operations planner and deployed twice to Afghanistan in support of Special Operations and the International Security Assistance Force.
Parmer retired from active duty in September 2012 and began a career as the public affairs officer for Navy Talent Acquisition Group San Antonio until 2021, when he entered the federal civilian workforce as the public affairs officer for Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio.
Parmer is a past commander of Fred Brock American Legion Post 828. He is a Diamond Life Member of the NAACP and holds life membership in The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans.
The American Legion is the largest U.S. veterans organization, with nearly 2 million members in more than 12,000 posts across the nation and in foreign countries.
Chartered by Congress in 1919, The American Legion is dedicated to the motto of “Veterans Strengthening America.”
For more information about the 3rd Division, Department of Texas, visit www.txlegiondiv3.org.
