LTC (RET) Doug Burrer
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Burrer served in the US Army from 1975 until 2008. His final assignment was commanding an Infantry Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Doug was born in South Dakota when his father Arthur Burrer, a 1942 High School graduate and World War II veteran, was a school superintendent. After graduation from High School, Doug enlisted in the Army to obtain the GI Bill. A year later he and was selected to attend the United States Military Academy Preparatory School and then attended West Point. Upon graduation, Doug was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry serving his initial assignment as a Platoon Leader in the First Infantry Division. He returned to the Big Red One for an additional assignment commanding an Infantry Rifle Company in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and as a Battalion Commander in First Army during Iraqi Freedom.
During his military career, he served on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon in Washington, DC and also as the senior US Army Exchange Officer with the Australian Defence Forces at their headquarters in Canberra, Australia. Along with various other stateside assignments he served six overseas tours of duty including three combat tours.
Doug is married to the former Dagmar Hiller from Stuttgart whom he met while stationed in Germany. They have three grown daughters, Angela, Meaghan, and Hannah and two grandsons, Phillip and Arthur. He and Dagmar currently live in New Bern, NC, but he has kept the family home in Hosmer and returns there every October for pheasant season.
Doug was born in South Dakota when his father Arthur Burrer, a 1942 High School graduate and World War II veteran, was a school superintendent. After graduation from High School, Doug enlisted in the Army to obtain the GI Bill. A year later he and was selected to attend the United States Military Academy Preparatory School and then attended West Point. Upon graduation, Doug was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry serving his initial assignment as a Platoon Leader in the First Infantry Division. He returned to the Big Red One for an additional assignment commanding an Infantry Rifle Company in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and as a Battalion Commander in First Army during Iraqi Freedom.
During his military career, he served on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon in Washington, DC and also as the senior US Army Exchange Officer with the Australian Defence Forces at their headquarters in Canberra, Australia. Along with various other stateside assignments he served six overseas tours of duty including three combat tours.
Doug is married to the former Dagmar Hiller from Stuttgart whom he met while stationed in Germany. They have three grown daughters, Angela, Meaghan, and Hannah and two grandsons, Phillip and Arthur. He and Dagmar currently live in New Bern, NC, but he has kept the family home in Hosmer and returns there every October for pheasant season.