Rate My Professor Brandon Shah

Lt. Col. Brandon A. Shah served as Professor of Military Science and chair of the Department of Military Science in the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. A native of Virginia and proud ODU alumnus, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology with a Military Leadership minor from the university in 2007 and was commissioned as an Army officer through its ROTC program. Shah enlisted in the Army in 2003 as an Aviation Operations Specialist, attaining the rank of Sergeant before transitioning to officer status. His military service included deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and a rotation to Atlantic Resolve. He earned Army Aviation Senior Aviator wings, accumulated more than 1,200 flight hours across three aircraft with the AH-64E Apache as his primary platform, and logged over 600 combat flight hours. Shah held command positions exceeding 36 months, including with A/1-3 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, A/3-17 Air Cavalry Squadron, and B/603 Aviation Support Battalion, and served in units such as the 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, XVII Airborne Corps, United States Forces-Iraq, and 3rd Infantry Division. His final active-duty role was Brigade S3 in the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade at Hunter Army Airfield. He also completed an MBA from the University of Georgia and an MS in Project Management from the University of Kansas.