He graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a second lieutenant.

Faurer completed the National War College at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., in 1968 and concurrently earned a master's degree in international affairs from the George Washington University, also in Washington, D.C. After graduation from the United States Military Academy, Faurer attended flying schools at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, and Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and received his pilot wings in August 1951.

While at Barksdale he was associated with the 2nd Air Force's growing inventory of intercontinental ballistic missiles: Atlas D, E, F; Titan II; and Minuteman I. Faurer attended the graduate engineer management program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from June 1963 to July 1964.

Faurer was assigned as director, J-2, United States Southern Command, Canal Zone, in July 1971, and in June 1973 transferred to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., for duty as deputy assistant chief of staff for intelligence.

Faurer was president of the Corporation for Open Systems, a not-for-profit industry research center for the promotion of OSI and ISDN international communications standards, from 1986 to 1991.

During the 1990s, "Linc" Faurer also served on the board of directors for the Aegis Research Corporation of Rosslyn and later Falls Church, Virginia.