Brian is a graduate of Villanova University (B.S. ’98), earned graduate degrees from the USAF Air Command and Staff College and Princeton University (Master’s Public Policy ’15), received his commission through NROTC (’98), and completed SEAL Training in Coronado (’99). As a Naval Special Warfare Officer, he completed 10 combat deployments to the U. S. Pacific Command, U. S. European Command, U.S. African Command, and U.S. Central Command on various combined, joint, and inter-agency task forces including Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan as Director of Current Operations and Deputy Director for Operations in Kabul, Afghanistan, and served in staff officer capacities as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans, Strategy at Naval Special Warfare Group ONE, as Commander of Special Operations Task Force-West in Anbar, Iraq, and as Commanding Officer of SEAL Team ONE. Brian is currently the Chief of Staff for the Naval Special Warfare Center responsible for recruiting, selecting, training, and qualifying candidates to become SEALs or Combat Crewmen, maintaining schoolhouses that provide advanced individual skills qualification to the NSW force, and operation of 135 ranges/training facilities in the NSW training enterprise. Brian has received many individual combat and commendation medals and ribbons in recognition of his military accomplishments.