Colonel Donald A. Ramsay was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers upon graduation from Officer Candidate School in June of 1947. His first duty assignment was as Assistant Motor Officer and Assistant Adjutant, 32d Engineer Construction Group, Misawa Air Force Base, Japan. He subsequently resigned his commission and entered the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York 1 July 1949. Upon graduation in 1953 he was again commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Commander, Company B, 430th Engineer Construction Battalion, 32d Engineer Construction Group, Korea; Commander, Company A, 3d Engineer Battalion (Combat), 24th Division, Korea and Japan; Assistant Resident Engineer, Corps of Engineers Kansas City District, Fort Riley, Kansas; Instructor, Army Nuclear Power Plant Operators Course, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Advisor, Imperial Iranian Army Engineer School, Joint U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group, Tehran, Iran; Assistant Professor for Nuclear Physics, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York; Operations Officer, 44th Engineer Group (Construction), Korat, Thailand; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Force Development, Headquarters, Department of the Army; Commander, 589th Engineer Battalion (Construction), Phan Rang, Vietnam; Chief, Construction Engineering Division, U.S. Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Chief, Manpower Programs Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Headquarters, Department of the Army. | Colonel Ramsay is a registered Professional Engineer; has been elected a Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers; and is a Project Management Consultant in Rail Transit Systems.