He then served as the Assistant G3 for the U.S. He commanded the battalion from 1992 to 1994. He was then selected for battalion command of the 2nd Bn (Advanced Skills), 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne). Upon his return to the United States, he was reassigned to the U.S. He then moved up to the battalion XO of 1st Bn, 3rd SF Group and deployed with the Battalion in January 1991 to serve in Operation Desert Storm. Upon completing the Army’s Command and General Staff College in 1989, he returned to Fort Bragg as the commander of Company A, 3rd Battalion, 5th SF Group. In 1987 he was one of the first officers to change branches to the newly created Special Forces Branch. He completed the Special Forces Qualification “Q” Course in 1983 while assigned to 5th Group, with a follow-on assignment as an ROTC instructor at the University of Iowa for four years. He began his first assignment in the special-operations arena as the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) engineer in 1982. His follow-on assignment was as a company commander in the 82nd Airborne Division,įort Bragg, N.C from 1980-82. His first assignment was as a combat engineer platoon leader and company executive officer in Neu Ulm, Germany for 4 years.
Upon graduating with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from his beloved UGA, he was commissioned in the Army Corps of Engineers and entered active duty in October 1975. in 1951, began his military service via an Army ROTC scholarship at the University of Georgia in 1969. Colonel (Retired) Edwin “Andy” Anderson, born in Albany, Ga.