Kurush Bharucha-Reid

Colonel Kurush Bharucha-Reid or "KB" (29 March 1955 – 26 May 2010) was a United States Army official. He gained prominence as an intelligence and special operations expert in the United States Army from 1973 to 2010 who garnered respect across the US Special Operations and United States Intelligence Community for his significant impacts on military human intelligence, known as HUMINT.

Bharucha-Reid was of Parsi and African-American descent and was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1955. He provided major contributions to the US Army's Human Intelligence programs and had considerable impacts on both training and combat missions around the world culminating with his achievement in receiving the Office of Strategic Service Society's Donovan Award, is a US Army Military Intelligence Hall of Fame inductee, along with numerous other combat decorations and medals. For similar reasons the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) established a new DIA training facility in Norfolk, Virginia dedicated as the Reid Center in his tribute to service and career impacts. He graduated from Cranbrook Schools in 1973.

Bharucha-Reid, who was commonly known as KB, enlisted in the US Army's Special Forces in 1973. Bharucha-Reid's skilled leadership and training support to foreign militaries in small-unit weapons and special operations tactics quickly resulted in his promotion to Sergeant First Class. Director Current Operations of a Tier 1 Special Mission Unit. Today, both uniformed service members and civilians are awarded the Colonel Kurush Bharucha-Reid Award for Excellence in Human Intelligence Tradecraft.

Honors, decorations, awards and distinctions In addition to Bharucha-Reid's career achievements his awards include:

The Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Defense Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Achievement Medal, and the Ranger, Special Forces, Pathfinder, Master Parachutist, and Military Free Fall Jump Master badges. Bharucha-Reid was a Jump Master and High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) certified.

In addition, Bharucha-Reid received the Office of Strategic Service Society's Donovan Award and was inducted into the US Army's Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 2014.