Colonel Edmund Thomas Negrelli was commissioned an Infantry Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School Class 30, 21 May 1943. His first assignment was as Platoon Leader, 655th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Camp Hood, Texas. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Platoon Leader, 605th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Platoon Leader, Company C, 263rd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division, European Theater of Operations; Company Commander, 1314 LABR-SUPV Company, Salzburg, Austria; Platoon Leader, Company K, 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division, - CONN, Virginia; Company Commander, Company K, 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division, CONN, Virginia; Company Commander, Headquarters Company, 43rd Infantry Division, Camp Picket, Virginia; Company Commander, Company G, 172nd Infantry Regiment, Camp Picket, Virginia and Germany; Adjutant, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion 172nd Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division, Germany; Company Commander, Company K, 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division, CONN, Germany; S-3, 3rd Battalion, 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division-CONN, Germany; S-3, 2nd Battle Group, 169th Infantry, 43rd Infantry Division-CONN, Germany; Battalion Commander, 1st Battalion, 169th Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division-CONN, Germany; G-3, 103rd EOH, CONN, Germany; C/ S, 103rd EOH-CONN, Germany; Brigade Commander, 43rd Infantry Brigade, 26th Infantry (Yankee) Division-CONN, Germany.