LTC Curt Burner graduated from BHS in 1980.  He was first commissioned upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984.  As an Army aviator, from 1984 to 1990, he served in multiple leadership positions with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY.  Curt received his J.D. from WVU College of Law in 1994 and earned an L.L.M. in Military Law from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School in 2000.  In 2002, he was an honor graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College.

In 2006, he earned an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College in Newport, RI, where he was awarded the VADM James H. Doyle Jr. prize for the best student paper written on an Operational or International Law Topic.  Prior to being deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan from July 2007 to August 2008, Curt served for two years at the Pentagon in the International and Operational Law Division, Army Office of the Staff Judge Advocate advising the senior Army leadership on international and operational law issues relating to the execution of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and has received many awards and decorations.