Colonel Paul W. Hamblin was commissioned an Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School Class16-43, 9 September 1943. His first duty assignment was as Platoon Leader, 834th Anti Aircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion (SP), Camp Haan, California. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Platoon Leader, Company A, 29th Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, Fort McClellan, Alabama; Platoon Leader, Company C, 508th Prcht Infantry Regiment, European Theater of Operations; Platoon Leader, Troop C, 71st Constabulary Squadron, European Theater of Operations; Platoon Leader, Company L, 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Commander, Company A, 10th Medium Tank Battalion, Camp Chaffe, Arkansas; Staff Officer, G4 Section, Headquarters 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Commander, Company E, 35th Infantry, 25th Division, FECOM-Korea; Commander, Company H, 35th Infantry, 25th Division, FECOM-Korea; Executive Officer, Public Information Office, Headquarters 82nd, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Assistant G-1, G-1 Section, Headquarters 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Public Information Officer, PIO, Headquarters 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Committee Chief, Seventh Army NCO Academy, USAREUR; Director of Instruction, Seventh Army NCO Academy, USAREUR; Assistant Secretary General Staff, Office of Chief of Staff, Seventh Army, USAREUR; Instructor, U.S. Army Information School, Fort Slocum, New York; Chief, Radio/TV Department, U.S. Army Information School, Fort Slocum, New York; J-1 Advisor, VN Joint General Staff, MACV, Saigon, Vietnam; G-1 Advisor, II Corps (VN), Pleiku, Vietnam; Brigade Executive Officer, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas; Post G-4, Headquarters Fort Riley, Fort Riley, Kansas; Chief of Staff, Headquarters Fort Riley, Fort Riley, Kansas; Chief, Military Equipment Delivery Team, Rangoon, Burma; Post S-4, Headquarters Fort George G. Meade, Fort Meade, Maryland.