A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Colonel Reinhardt served throughout World War II in the European theater as a commander of an Engineer Combat Group. After VE Day, he was G-4 of the First Provisional Logistical Command in Germany, and later Engineer, Berlin Command. He is now the head of the Logistics Section of the Department of Analysis and Research at The Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.