Sublieutenant Reilly is undergoing phase two training at the British Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He recently returned from service on board HMS Spey, a Batch 2 offshore patrol vessel deployed in the Indo-Pacific region. In 2023 while a midshipman, he won the Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize, the Royal United Services Institute’s annual competition for original writing on contemporary issues of national and international defense and security.