TBAR
CDR Chris Allred
- Bronze Star
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Army Commendation Medal with Valor
- Air Medal (4 Awards)
- Letter of Admonishment — Flying too low and too close to an oil tanker off the coast of South Carolina
SERVICE RECORD
Chris “TBAR” Allred didn’t come from the carrier world, he came from the mud and dust of the F-16 community, where every sortie was personal and every radio call carried the weight of ground troops depending on him.
As an Air Liaison Officer (ALO) attached to Army units early in his career, he learned how to translate chaos into clarity. Turning overlapping missions, airspace restrictions, and frantic JTAC calls into clean, executable strikes.
That field experience forged his understanding of what airpower really meant: coordination, timing, and trust. It made him the kind of officer who could speak both “pilot” and “grunt” fluently — a trait that made him invaluable when CVW-0 needed someone to bring harmony to the organized madness of a flight deck.
Pilots describe him as equal parts choir director and war drummer, a man who brings order to insanity and does it with style. He doesn’t just manage launches; he orchestrates them. Every mission that roars off the Leviathan’s deck bears his cadence, his timing, and his belief that precision isn’t optional — it’s sacred.