LT Colonel Brian Hass, USA, Director

Brian Haas grew up in North Dakota where also graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Science commercial aviation – rotorcraft with a Military Science minor. He later earned his Master of Science degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with specialties in Aviation Operations and Human Factors.

He graduated US Army flight school qualified in the AH-64D and was subsequently assigned to 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment – 1st Air Cavalry Brigade at Fort Hood, Texas, as a platoon leader and later as a company commander of HHC and A Company. He later served at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada on an Office of the Secretary of Defense Joint Test. 

Additional assignments include: Aviation Advisor-United States Military Training Mission – Saudi Arabia; battalion operations officer 1-3 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion – Katterbach, Germany; 12th CAB brigade operations officer, and later brigade executive officer – Katterbach, Germany; Aviation Operations Observer Controller/Trainer – National Training Center; FT Irwin, CA, Joint Special Operations Command – Fort Bragg, North Carolina and most recently the commander of 1-14th Aviation Regiment – Fort Rucker, AL. Lieutenant Colonel Haas Currently serves as the Team Chief for the MV-75 Operational Development Team at Fort Rucker, AL. 

LTC Haas has deployed in operational and support environments, accumulating over 2,000 flight hours of which 1,000 are in combat. He is rated in the OH-58A/C, LUH-72, AH-64D, and is an instructor in the AH-64E Apache. He also holds several civilian type ratings in fixed and rotary wing aircraft. LTC Haas’s military awards and decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal with Numeral 2 and “V” device. He has also earned the Combat Action Badge, the Master Army Aviator Badge and the Parachutist Badge.