Colonel Terry T. Field was commissioned an Infantry Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School, 27 March 1942, class number 6. His first duty assignment was as Company Officer, 15th Training Regiment, Camp Roberson, Arkansas. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Company Commander, 15th Training Regiment, Camp Roberson, Arkansas; Company Commander, 6th Training Battalion, Camp Reynolds, Pennsylvania; Battalion Adjutant and S3, 2d Repl Regiment, Fort Meade, Maryland; Company Commander, Co D, Repl Regiment, Camp Adair, Oregon; Company Commander, Co A, Repl Regiment, Camp Pickett, Virginia; Company Commander, Battalion Executive Officer, Battalion S3, Battalion S2, 8th Cav Regiment, 1st Cav Div, FECOM-Tokyo, Japan - Korea; Infantry Advisor Instructor, Georgia National Guard, 2d Bn, 122d Inf, Milledgeville, Georgia; Executive Officer, Battalion Commander, Regimental S1, 351, 1st Inf Regiment, TRUST, 1st Bn, 349th Inf, USFA, Trieste - Linz, Austria; Personnel Staff Officer, G1 Headquarters, USAREUR, Heidelburg, Germany; Deputy Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Fort Gordon, Fort Gordon, Georgia; Executive Officer, Army Section, JUSMAGG, Athens, Georgia; Staff Assistant, Plans and Coordination Div, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs), Washington, D.C.; Chief, Associate Army Division, Tactics/Combined Army Department, U.S. Army Arty and Missile School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.| Colonel Field's awards and decorations include: Army Commendation Ribbon; Bronze Star Medal with V Device; Purple Heart; Oak Leaf Cluster to Bronze Star Medal; Silver Star.