In 1990 he was accepted to a graduate program in the Army Command and General Staff College at Armed Forces University, returning to Kinmen the following year as a brigade commander. Later, in 1995, he took up work at the Kinmen Defense Command as head of the operations section.
1990 年，他獲選進入培養高級軍官的三軍大學陸軍學院進修，隔年再調回金門擔任旅長，並於 1995 年出任當時金門防衛司令部（現改為金門防衛指揮部）作戰處科長。