Captain Wayne M. Burr was commissioned as a Direct Accession in 2011 and was designated as Naval Flight Surgeon in 2012.
Assignments in the operating forces include: Group Surgeon, Marine Aircraft Group 31; Wing Surgeon, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing (Fwd) during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Senior Medical Officer, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and Force Medical Officer for Carrier Strike Group TEN; Deputy Force Surgeon, Commander, Naval Air Forces; and Medical Liaison Officer, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet tasked with oversight of medical asset integration for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Assignments outside of the operational forces include: Staff Internal Medicine consultant and instructor, Naval Aerospace Medical Institute; and Senior Medical Advisor for Commander, Navy Installations Command, for Quality of Life programs to include Navy Wounded Warrior, Fisher House, and Navy Gold Star.
CAPT Burr is a graduate of Furman University (BS 1989), the Medical University of South Carolina (MD 1993), the University of West Florida (MPH 2017), Joint Professional Military Education, Phase 1 Fleet Seminar Program (2017), and Naval War College Master of Arts in Defense and Strategic Studies (2020). He is graduate of the Navy Residency in Aerospace Medicine (RAM) and holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and Aerospace Medicine.
CAPT Burr assumed his duties as the Force Surgeon, U.S. Marine Forces Reserve and U.S. Marine Forces South on 24 June 2024.