Bharucha-Reid's skilled leadership and training support to foreign militaries in small-unit weapons and special operations tactics quickly resulted in his promotion to Sergeant First Class.

[1] Drawing from his earlier leadership experience, Bharucha-Reid led a "one of a kind" special operations organization providing total immersion training to a small team of Republic of Korea personnel.

[1] There he deployed to the War in Afghanistan as a human intelligence case officer assigned to provide direct support to US Special Operations Command.

[1] Upon completion of that assignment he later returned to serve as the Chief of the Military Group and Senior Department of Defense Instructor at a prestigious inter-agency intelligence training institution.

Finally, in February 2014, the US Army's Human Intelligence Training Joint Center of Excellence established an Honor Graduate Program in recognition of outstanding student performance in the Source Operations Course and the Defense Advanced Tradecraft Course.

[1] In addition, Bharucha-Reid received the Office of Strategic Service Society's Donovan Award and was inducted into the US Army's Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 2014.