Lieutenant Colonel Royse has held a variety of operational and acquisition command and staff assignments.  Her operational command and staff assignments include: Platoon Leader, Bravo Company and Adjutant, 94^th Engineer Battalion, Vilseck, Germany; Executive Officer, Alpha Company, 94^th Engineer Battalion, Hohenfels, Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina; United Nations Engineer Officer, United Nations Preventive Deployment Forces, Macedonia; Company Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 20^th Engineer Battalion, 1^st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas and Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Lieutenant Colonel Royse’s acquisition assignments include: Contingency Contracting Officer, Division Support Command, 4^th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas and Directorate of Contracting, Kuwait; Contingency Contracting Officer, Northern Region Contracting Center - Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Contingency Contracting Officer, 225^th Brigade Support Battalion, 2^nd Stryker Brigade, 25^th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; Chief, Regional Contracting Center - Kirkuk, Iraq, Joint Contracting Command Iraq/Afghanistan; Team Leader, 617^th Contingency Contracting Team, Fort Shafter, Hawaii; Chief, Regional Contracting Center – The Americas, 410^th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Sam Houston, Texas and Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Executive Officer, 410^th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Lieutenant Colonel Royse’s awards and decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, four Army Commendation Medals, five Army Achievement Medals, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the United Nations Medal, the NATO Medal, the Parachutist Badge, and the Air Assault Badge.