Kurush Bharucha-Reid

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Colonel Kurush (KB) Bharucha-Reid
US Special Forces soldier, intelligence, and special operations expert
Born	(1955-03-29)29 March 1955 Detroit, Michigan
Died	26 May 2010(2010-05-26) (aged 55) Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Nationality	American
Alma mater	State University of New York, 1988
Occupation	Special Forces
Father	Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid

Colonel Kurush Bharucha-Reid or "KB" (29 March 1955 – 26 May 2010) 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.^[1]

Bharucha-Reid was of Indian 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.^[2][3] 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.^[1]