Colonel Dan R. Brue II was commissioned a Signal Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School Class 1-96, 31 January 1996. His first assignment was as a Platoon Leader and later Executive Officer with Alpha Company, 123d Signal Battalion, 3d Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia.

His subsequent duty assignments include: Battalion Signal Officer (S6), 103d Military Intelligence Battalion, 3d Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia; Executive Officer, 385th Signal Company, 54th Signal Battalion, Camp Doha, Kuwait; Company Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 63d Signal Battalion Fort Gordon, Georgia; Company Commander, Alpha Company, 63d Signal Battalion, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Plans Officer, 335th Signal Command (Theater), East Point, Georgia and Camp Doha, Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom; Combat Signal Trainer, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California; Battalion Operations Officer (S3), 58th Signal Battalion, 516th Signal Brigade, Okinawa, Japan; Battalion Executive Officer, 58th Signal Battalion, 516th Signal Brigade, Okinawa, Japan; Chief, G6 Plans and Exercises Branch, United States Army Africa, Vicenza, Italy; Advisor to the Iraq Ministry of Defense Director General of Communications, United States Forces – Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq during Operation New Dawn; Chief, G6 Current Operations Branch, United States Army Africa, Vicenza, Italy; Deputy G3, 7th Signal Command (Theater), Fort Gordon, Georgia; Battalion Commander, 41st Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade, Yongsan, South Korea; Deputy Commander, United States Army Cyber Protection Brigade, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Director of Operations (G3), 311th Signal Command (Theater), Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

He is a graduate of the United States Army War College Fellows Program and served as a Senior Service Fellow at The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of Command and General Staff College, Signal Captain’s Career Course, Combined Arms and Services Staff College, Signal Officer Basic Course, Air Assault School, and Airborne School.