Major General Ryan served as the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4 (Logistics) for U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina from March 2018 to June 2021.

Ryan received a Bachelor Degree from York College in Pennsylvania and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps in 1987.

He is a graduate of the Combined Logistics Officer Advanced Course, the Logistics Executive Development Course, the Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College.

[1] MG Ryan has participated in numerous operations in defense of freedom and liberty.

Most notably, he deployed to the first Gulf War in Kuwait and Iraq (1990-1991); served in Germany (1992-1996); participated in peace enforcement operations in Bosnia and Croatia (1996); participated in the campaign to liberate Iraq (2003); assisted in the rescue, relief, and recovery of American citizens in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita (2005); served in Afghanistan with a Combined Joint Task Force 82 (CJTF-82) and NATO International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) (2007-2008), and returned for a short deployment to Afghanistan and Kuwait with the 1st Sustainment Command (TSC), Theater and the 143rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) (2009).