[3] He left Oklahoma for the United States Military Academy at West Point at 17 years old and graduated in 1994.
Brad is a master army aviator rated in the UH-1 (Huey), OH-58 A/C (Kiowa), AH-64A (Apache) and AH-64D (Longbow) with multiple deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans and Korea.
He moved to Jackson, Wyoming, after his retirement from the US Army and was selected as the chief operating officer of Teton County School District Number 1.
[4] Barker serves on the Agriculture, Taxation, Transport, and is the chairman of the Interim Legislative Consumer committees.
[5] He helped author legislation to increase literacy rates among children in 2023 and held a press conference alongside Governor Greg Gianforte on the issue of education.