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Meet Chris Shea
Warrant Officer Shea is a native of Watertown, Connecticut. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Charter Oak State College. He was commissioned November 2012 and attended the LDO/CWO Academy in Newport, RI in November 2013. Warrant Officer Shea started his Navy career in 1991 as a hospital corpsman, with his first tour being at Naval Hospital Groton. He then completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL and Special Forces Medic (18-D) training before reporting to SEAL Team 8. He has gone on to serve at SEAL Team 18, Naval Special Warfare Group Two, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Special Operations Command North, US Embassy Mexico City, and the Pentagon.
Warrant Shea’s operational tours include deployments with various joint special operation tasks forces in Sarejevo, Afghanistan, and Mexico. In 1997, he was part of an elite team that collected intel, apprehended suspects, and extradited folks to the Hague to stand trial and of war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.
In 2006 and 2011, Shea was part of an inter-agency, multi-disciplinary joint task force tasked with finding and prosecuting al-Qaeda and Taliban high-value targets in Afghanistan.
In 2015-2016, Warrant Shea served first as the OIC of the planning and assistance and training team for Special Operations Command North out of the US Embassy, Mexico City. He then transitioned to the OIC of a SEAL squad charged with training Mexican special operations forces to combat transnational criminal organizations. Warrant Officer Shea most recently served as a Requirement’s Officer for the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon, in the Naval Special Warfare Branch, ensuring the proper funding and equipping of Naval Special Operations forces.
Since retiring in January of 2024, Chris has returned to work as a lieutenant at the North Haven Fire Dept. And is the president and founder of Hero to Hero, Inc. – helping to transition special operators and other highly qualified service members to first responder careers.
