He was stationed at various locations throughout the United States, including Baltimore, MD; Portland, ME; Washington, DC and Seattle, WA.

[1] In 1914, Kutz became the military civil engineer member of the three-person board of commissioners that governed the city of Washington.

In 1917, shortly after being promoted to colonel, he was ordered to France for duty with the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War.

He was promoted to brigadier general, National Army, in June 1918 and assigned as assistant chief of staff, Services of Supply.

In July, he left France and took command of Camp Humphries, the main training ground for officers of the engineering corps.

[1][7] In March 1941, he was called out of retirement and again made engineering commissioner of the District of Columbia by President Roosevelt.

After his second retirement from active duty in February 1946, he became a consulting engineer to the Sanitary District of Chicago and to the Minister of Works of Venezuela for the Maracaibo Bar Commission on the matter of providing a stable and ample deep water entrance to the oil port of Maracaibo.