Walnut Creek Native Takes Command Of Fort Bragg Battalion

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Walnut Creek Native Lt. Col. Sharon Engelmeier has taken command of the 7th Psychologicial Operations Battalion at Fort Bragg, NC. A Change Of Command ceremony was held on Wednesday.

Engelmeier is a 2002 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. She has risen steadily through the ranks of command since her commissioning.

Her first assignment was at the 44th Engineer Battalion at Camp Howze, Korea where she served as the Platoon Leader and Support Platoon Leader.

She then served as assistant Battalion S1 at 12th Aviation Battalion before serving as a Confined Space Technical Rescue Platoon Leader in the Military District of Washington Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Following the Engineer Captain’s Career Course, she was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division where she deployed for 16 months in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan serving as Division Public Affairs Planner, Key Leader Engagements Action Officer, and then Company Commander of HHC, 4th BSTB ABN DIV in Logar Province.

Her next assignment was to Human Resources Command in Alexandria, Virginia as a Department of the Army Secretariat Board Recorder.

In 2010, Engelmeier transferred to Army Psychological Operations and deployed to Germany as the Regional Information Support Team Commander and then Company Commander.

She then completed an Interagency Fellowship at the Department of State’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication before returning to Fort Bragg to serve in the Commander’s Initiatives Group at the J.F.K Special Warfare Center and School.

Her following assignments were as Battalion Operations Officer, Executive Officer to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command - Deputy to the Commanding General, and then served at Joint Special Operations Command.

Engelmeier has a Master's degree from Missouri University S&T and the Institute of World Politics.

She is married to Jon Savage and they have two children.