Lt. Col. Ryan Dunbar, a native of Bangor, Maine, graduated from the United States Military Academy in 2006 and commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
As a company grade officer, he served with the 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 5th Brigade, 1st Armored Division (Army Evaluation Task Force) and the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas. While assigned to Fort Bliss, he deployed to Iraq in 2009-2010. He then served with the 7th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Brigade at Fort Drum, New York. While assigned to Fort Drum, he deployed to Afghanistan in 2012.
After company command, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where he served as an Engineer Captains Career Course small group leader from 2013 to 2016. During his final year, he served as a senior instructor and team chief for the Engineer Captains Career Course.
Upon completion of Command and General Staff College, Dunbar was assigned to the 36th Engineer Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas where he served as the Brigade Planner and the Operations Officer for the 20th Engineer Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas. While there, he was attached to the III Corps Staff and deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve from 2017 to 2018. He subsequently served at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas as part of Operations Group Alpha, Mission Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he supported eight Warfighter Exercises as a Protection OC-T, and as an instructor at the Command and General Staff College. Most recently he was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 11th Airborne Division where he commanded the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion (Kodiaks).
Dunbar is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and has degrees in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy, and Engineering Management from University of Missouri at Rolla.
His awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with four oak leaf clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and the Air Assault Badge.