Bryan has graduate degrees in History and International Relations as well as undergraduate degrees in Nursing and Religious Studies. He is the devoted father of thee amazing and very patient kids. A Lt Col in the US Air Force, he commands the 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron where he is responsible for maintaining a combat rescue force of 100 medics ready to respond to any global crisis within 72 hours. Across 22 years and 10 deployments he has engaged in multiple peacekeeping and stability operations with NATO, Humanitarian Interventions with the UN and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies alongside NGO's. Among other awards he has earned the Air Medal for sustained meritorious flight, the Humanitarian Service Medal for disaster relief work in Haiti and has been decorated for Valor in Afghanistan. His particular expertise surrounds the issues of Civil-Military cooperation, the Securitization of Humanitarian Space, Refugees and Human Displacement. He enrolled in the INCM PhD Program to move past practical expertise towards academic expertise.

Bryan is currently writing about Securitization Theory, Discourse Analysis, Humanitarian and/or Development interventions, and US military operations. His dissertation title is: “Securitizing Development or The Development of Securitization: Inventorying Post-9/11 US Military Operations"