[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 138 (Tuesday, August 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5709-S5710]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO COLONEL BRADLEY BOYD

  Mr. KING. Madam President, today I wish to recognize and congratulate 
COL Brad Boyd on his outstanding service to our Nation both as a member 
of my defense and foreign policy team, and as a U.S. Army infantry 
officer with 30 years of combined military experience in both the Army 
and the Marine Corps.
  Colonel Boyd selflessly devoted the last 4 months of his time in 
service to working in my office as a defense and foreign policy adviser 
and as the lead staff member assigned to the Cyberspace Solarium 
Commission. During this service, Colonel Boyd made several major policy 
contributions that will affect how the Department of Defense and the 
Department of Homeland Security will defend the United States and its 
interests in the future. Prior to joining my office, Brad served as the 
Director of Joint Warfighting for the Department's Joint Artificial 
Intelligence Center. Colonel Boyd also previously served as a senior 
military fellow at Stanford University's Center for International 
Security and Cooperation, where his research addressed cyber- and AI-
enabled information warfare and national security strategy. Before 
Stanford, Brad served as a liaison officer to the British Army, as well 
as in a number of infantry and overseas assignments: as deputy 
commander of a 4,000-paratrooper brigade ready for short-notice 
worldwide contingency operations; as commander of a battalion in the 
82nd Airborne Division tasked as the U.S. Army's Global Response 
Force--a unit of 800 paratroopers ready to deploy and operate anywhere 
in the world within 18 hours' notice; and as commander of a rifle 
company as part of a task force that played a key role in the hunt for 
Saddam Hussein.
  On behalf of my colleagues and the U.S. Congress, I thank Colonel 
Boyd for his dedicated service to my staff, the U.S. Army, the U.S. 
Marine Corps, and the Nation. What truly makes the U.S. military the 
greatest in the history of the world is the fact that servicemembers 
like Colonel Boyd decide to dedicate their lives to service and 
sacrifice for their country. I wish him all the best and know that he 
will excel in anything that he chooses to pursue in his next endeavors.

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