Loyd finished the war on the island of Pelelieu as a platoon leader and battalion reconnaissance officer. He spent his time there patrolling, looking for Japanese stragglers, playing poker, playing softball and waiting to invade Japan. He built up a good bank account with his poker winnings. With his mathematical brain, he understood innately the probabilities in poker.

When Loyd was discharged, he came home and joined Herchel, R. C. and some of his old Troop F buddies for a wasted year during which all of them blew their savings and the $20 per week rocking chair money they received from Uncle Sam to help them get reestablished. They spent a lot of time in the honky-tonks in Mineral Wells and playing softball for the Independents in the Mineral Wells Commercial League. Curtis also played on this team. Often there were six Knights in the lineup.

After he ran out of money, Loyd tried his hand at construction work in South Texas. He was soon moved into the office of the company to become its bookkeeper.

In 1947, he reenlisted as a technical sergeant, but later applied for his commission and received it. He remarried Lenora in 1950, and was sent to Korea in 1951. One day, while sitting in his foxhole, Loyd decided to move to the one next to him to get some information. Immediately after he settled into the second foxhole his first foxhole took a direct hit from a North Korean artillery round. On another occasion, Loyd was ordered to take his platoon to the railroad. Their grisly task was to pry loose Korean civilians who had run from the Chinese and hitched a ride on the boxcars. They had frozen to death stuck to the sides of the cars.

Loyd served in a variety of positions and was stationed in Munich, Germany, at SACOM Headquarters in 1955. His primary duty was planning for the withdrawal of troops and dependents in case of war with Russia.

Loyd’s family joined him, but their son, David, suffered from severe allergies that demanded that Lee take the children home. They were also raising Elaine and Mark Crosland, Lenora’s children from her marriage to Micky Crosland, another F Trooper. Loyd resigned his commission in a few weeks to avoid spending more than two years in Germany without his family. Shortly after returning to the States, however, he reapplied and was reinstated at his rank of captain.

Loyd attended several army schools. He was honor student of an armor school in 1955. He graduated from Air Defense School on July 4, 1957, as honor student.

After serving another tour of duty in Korea in 1960-61, Loyd served the remainder of his career commanding batteries of Nike missiles in Virginia, and battalions around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He attended the Command and General Staff College in 1964, and retired May 31, 1967, with the rank of Lt. Colonel.

Loyd died April 7, 1987, at the age of 64. His wife, Lee, preceded him in death.