Chief Warrant Officer 5 Bryan T. Shaw serves as the seventh Command Chief Warrant Officer for the State of Texas. As the Command Chief Warrant Officer, he is the senior uniformed Texas National Guard Warrant Officer in the Texas Military Department responsible for formulating, developing, and coordinating all policies, programs and plans affecting the Army and Air Warrant Officer cohorts in over 100 locations throughout Texas.
Appointed by the Adjutant General, Chief Shaw functions as the Adjutant General’s principal adviser on Warrant Officer matters and is responsible for the strategic leadership, training, readiness, operational employment and performance of the Army and Air Force Warrant Officers of the Texas National Guard.
Chief Shaw entered the Regular Army at Fort Knox in August 1987. He assessed into the Army Reserve in February 2001 and then into the Texas Army National Guard in October 2001. He graduated from the 2/136 Regional Training Institute Warrant Officer Candidate School in September 2007 and then completed Warrant Officer Basic Course at Fort Lee, Va. and Fort Gordon, Ga.
Chief Shaw went on to serve in the Joint Force Headquarters, the 136th RTI, and deployed with the 36th Infantry Division Headquarters to Basra, Iraq. Upon return he served as a Train, Advise, and Counsel Officer; Instructor; Course Manager; and the first Commander of the 2/136 Regional Training Institute Warrant Officer Candidate School.
As a federal technician, Chief Shaw has worked at MATES on Special Projects, as a calibrator at the Combined Support Maintenance Shop #2, Training Center Garrison Command safety and in the State Safety Office including the Safety and Occupational Health Manager.