Command Senior Enlisted Leader of the Czech Armed Forces

Chief Warrant Officer Michal Gural

 

Education:

• 1989 – 1993
  Military Grammar School, Moravská Třebová
• 2020 
  U.S. Army Sergeant Major Academy (USASMA)
• 2025
  NATO Command Senior Enlisted Leader course, Switzerland 

Service career:

• 1995 – 1997
  Commander, engineer platoon 
• 1997 – 2000
  Company Commander, 2nd Engineer Battalion 
• 2000 – 2004
  Deputy Commander, 2nd Engineer Mechanised Company 
• 2005 – 2006
  Senior specialist, engineer communication company 
• 2006 – 2012
  Command Sergeant Major, Engineer Company 
• 2012 – 2014
  Command Sergeant Major, 151st Engineer Battalion
• 2014 – 2019
  Command Sergeant Major, 15th Engineer Regiment 
• 2019 – 2023
  Chief specialist, Engineer Service Section, Land Forces Development Department, MoD Force Development Division 
• 2023 – 2025 
  Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Territorial Forces Command 
• 2025
  Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Czech Armed Forces 

 Deployments:

• 1997
  Stabilisation Force, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2003
  Kosovo Force, Kosovo
• 2005
  European Union Force, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2015 – 2016
  Headquarters Czech Armed Forces Task Force Resolute Support, Afghanistan

Decorations:

• Czech Armed Forces Medal, 2nd and 3rd grade 
• NATO Medal “In Service of Peace and Freedom”
• MoD Foreign Service Medal – KFOR, 3rd grade
• MoD Foreign Service Medal, 3rd grade
• MoD Foreign Service Medal – SFOR, 3rd grade
• Armed Forces of the Czech Republic Service Medal, 1st grade 
• Non Article 5 NATO Medal RS Afghanistan
• MoD Foreign Service Medal – Afghanistan, 3rd grade
• Czech Armed Forces Honorary Medal of Merit, 3rd grade

 Language skills:

• English

Updated: September 04, 2025