 Following stateside schooling, he returned to Germany in January 1986 to command Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor.He then served as the Battalion Adjutant, Deputy Sub-Community Commander of Ferris Barracks, and finally as the S3, 1st Battalion, 35th Armor in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.Tucker attended Army Command and General Staff College in 1991 and 1992, and was then assigned as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.