Welton Chase:  

Colonel Welton Chase, Jr. is currently serving as the 27th Brigade Commander of the 1st Signal Brigade. In May of 1987 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation he was designated a distinguished military graduate and commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps. His previous assignments include Instrumentation Engineer at the Test and Experimentation Command (TEXCOM), Platoon Leader and Battalion Maintenance Officer 67th Signal Battalion, S-4 25th Signal Battalion, Assistant S-3 and Company Commander of D Company, 327th Signal Battalion (Airborne), and Operations Officer United States Army Space Command ¿ Europe. He was assigned to American¿s First Digitized Division the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Hood Texas as the S-3 operations officer of the 124th Signal Battalion, and later as the Assistant Division Signal Officer. Lieutenant Colonel Chase was next assigned to the United States Strategic Command at Offutt AFB, Nebraska where he served as a design engineer for the Mobile Consolidated Command Center and later as the Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief (CINC). In June 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Chase assumed command of the 501st Signal Battalion, 101st Airborne Division in Mosul, Iraq during Operation Iraq Freedom I. After 14 months he inactivated the Signal Battalion and assumed command of the 101st Airborne Division¿s newly transformed Speci...Expand for more