title: Shaun Burley
text: # Shaun Burley
  
  Major General Shaun Alex Burley, CB, MBE (born 4 March 1962) is a British Army officer who served as Military Secretary.
  
  ## Military career
  
  Burley was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1982. He became Commander of 8 Force Engineer Brigade (undertaking work at Camp Bastion and then in Basra) as well as Commander Royal Engineers for the Field Army before being appointed Chief of Staff at the Land Warfare Centre. After a tour as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Organisation in Headquarters Land Command, he went on to be Assistant Commandant (Land) at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in December 2009 and General Officer Commanding, Theatre Troops in 2011. He became Military Secretary in March 2013.
  
  