M I L E S T O N E S Fort Benning, Ga. Col Bharucha Reid was proficient in Korean and French. He was commissioned as a military intelligence officer and in 1988, completed his bachelor of science degree from the State University of New York. Until 1997, he served in various capacities including operations officer and company commander. Bharucha -Reid was then deployed to Bosnia to serve as the commander of a DoD Human Intelligence element, then to Afghanistan as the first HUMNIT officer assigned to provide direct support to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. In 2006, Bharucha-Reid was deployed to Iraq, where he served in an interagency coordination cell. Prior to his service at Fort Meade, he was also the chief for the military group and senior DoD instructor at the Inter-Agency Strategic Intelligence training program.
COL KURUSH BHARUCHA-REID (March 29, 1955- May 26, 2010) Commander of Fort Mead’s Army Field Support Centre Col Kurush Bharucha-Reid was laid to rest with Full Honors Military Funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on September 9, 2010. Brig (Rtd) Ervad Behram Panthaki led the funeral procession with Army Chaplin Samuel Godfrey and recited selected passages from the Gathas. A posthumous award of Legion of Merit was presented by the Commanding General to his mother Dr Rodabe Bharucha-Reid. Two days before his death Col Bharucha-Reid was presented with the HUMINT Hall of Fame Award for his work in Human Intelligence (HUMINT) . This is only the second time that such an award has been given. Col Bharucha –Reid died of pancreatic cancer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after struggling with the disease for more than a year. He was 55. Bharucha-Reid ( popularly known as KB to his friends) was raised in Detroit, where he graduated from the Cranbrook School in 1973. He then joined the Army under the Special Forces Enlistment Option and from 1974 to 1979, served with the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (A) and then attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., to study the Korean language. A year later, he was assigned to the Special Forces Detachment Korea, serving as the sole U.S. Army advisor to the Republic of Korea Third Special Forces Brigade and participating in numerous Mobile Training Teams throughout Asia. Promoted to sergeant first class in 1983, he left Korea to attend the Officer Candidate School at
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Called a "great American Solider" by Maj. Gen. Mary A. Legere, Commanding General of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, Bharucha-Reid was remembered at the Arlington National Cemetery by about 500 colleagues and friends from the Intelligence corps in Army, Navy and Air Force, who had gathered to honor his 37-year army career. Zarathushti community was represented at the ceremony by mother Dr Rodabe, brother Rustam, his uncle and cousins from Colorado and 133