The incoming Navy secretary served 10 years in the Army Reserve as an intelligence officer and got out as a captain, according to Army records.
The records released for the first time to Military Times show that Philip Bilden served in the Reserve from May 1986 to March 1996. Bilden never deployed and left with one decoration, an Army Achievement Medal, at the pay grade of O-3.
Bilden is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown University in Washington. After his commissioning, he attended the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
Following school, he was assigned to first the 486th Military Intelligence Detachment, Forest Park, Illinois, and then the 421st Military Intelligence Detachment, Boston.
During Bilden's time in the Reserve, he attended Harvard Business School, graduating in 1991.
It's unclear how much time Bilden spent on active duty.
Bilden has spent most of his career as a Hong Kong-based venture capitalist with HarbourVest Partners, a global private-equity investment firm.
