He holds an additional graduate degree from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS).

[citation needed] Bryant attended graduate school at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, receiving his Masters of Science Degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis in 1983.

Subsequently, he was assigned as Chief, Plans and Exercises G3, 5th Infantry Division, Fort Polk, Louisiana, and then as Executive Officer, 1st Battalion 70th Armor, and then as S3 for the 1st Raider Brigade.

Interviews with Bryant and a description of his planning efforts in support of Operation Joint Endeavor are featured in the 2005 book Armed Peacekeepers in Bosnia.

[4] In 1996, Bryant returned from deployment to the United States Army War College's Operational Warfighting Fellowship at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

He assumed his position at a NATO installation ceremony on June 27, 2005,[7] becoming the senior American official on the KFOR HQ command leadership team.

[8][3] Since retiring from active duty service, Bryant has served as an international civilian consultant on military, diversity, and executive management matters, primarily based alternately in the United Arab Emirates and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.