Active Duty Engineer Officer
Served in various Engineer units in positions of increasing responsibility. Work included both construction and combat engineering. Positions included Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, Battalion Adjutant, Battalion Civil Engineer, Company Commander, and Project Officer in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resident Engineer (field construction) office. Assignments included in the 27th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, NC, the 536th Engineer Battion (Combat Heavy) at Fort Kobbe, Panama, and the Huntington District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Deployments included to Honduras for school and airfield construction, to Saudi Arabia and Iraq for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, to El Salvador for bridge, school, and road construction, and to Ecuador for school and medical clinic construction.